Sky increasing bitrate on some programmes?

Anyone watched 'The Rock' tonight (29th Jan) on BBC1 via Sky/Sky+?

Wow. what a great picture. Either Sky has increased their bitrate for
certain programmes / films, or I'm going mad. Had I been asked I'd have
said that I was watching a well mastered DVD.... makes a change from the
usual Sky broadcast quality.

Note that I flipped through a number of movie channels afterwards and
noticed the usual compression issues.

I also noticed that the last episode of Battlestar Galactica (Sky One)
looked particularly good, plus BG consumed more Sky+ disk space than usual.

"Chas" wrote in message
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Anyone watched 'The Rock' tonight (29th Jan) on BBC1 via Sky/Sky+?

Wow. what a great picture. Either Sky has increased their bitrate for
certain programmes / films, or I'm going mad. Had I been asked I'd have
said that I was watching a well mastered DVD.... makes a change from the
usual Sky broadcast quality.

Note that I flipped through a number of movie channels afterwards and
noticed the usual compression issues.

I also noticed that the last episode of Battlestar Galactica (Sky One)
looked particularly good, plus BG consumed more Sky+ disk space than
usual.






As Jomtien said, the BBC bitrates have bugger all to do with SKY, same goes
for all the non-SKY owned/controlled channels on Dsat.
The coverage of the Man U game yesterday on BBC1 East midlands was bloody
awful, thankfully the BBC1 London broadcast was much better, pretty pathetic
situation considering the status and resources of the BBC.

SKY1 due to spare capacity on it's transponder has been broadcasting at
very high bitrates (3.6gig/hour approx), foolish I had hoped this was an
attempt
to improve the Picture Quality but alas according to SKY it was just down to
the stat muxing and now the bitrate is back to normal (perhaps even lower)!


Mike C

In uk.media.tv.sky on Sun, 30 Jan 2005, ^^artnada^^ wrote :

I rememeber the good ol' days when digital was first touted as the best
thing since sliced bread

Have you ever tried watching sliced bread?

Of course, if you film it in time lapse, then watch it go mouldy...
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Paul 'US Sitcom Fan' Hyett

In article ,
David Marshall wrote:
I was about to comment on this too. Either they've lowered the bitrate
considerably, or they've "upgraded" the software on their encoders and the
new version doesn't cope well with cell animation...

To reply to my own post... no, it's not that - live action stuff is just as
bad.

Dave
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