Recently returned from South Africa

In article , Nick
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"Mike GW8IJT" wrote in message
...
... I have a Freeview box and I get a perfect picture here (Wrexham, N
Wales) from Winter Hill. Your Freeview box is obviously suffering from
a duff installation. Regards Mike.

According to the signal page it's getting a perfect signal (in
Southampton using a Sony Freeview box).

When you have someone sitting in a studio the picture is fine, but when
the camera moves on an outside shot the picture is blurry.

I find that this varies a great deal from station to station, time to time,
etc. Hence I would not blame 'freeview' for this, but the decisions of
individual broadcasters w.r.t the bitrates and compression choices they are
making. Worst pictures I've seen have been on one of the discussions on BBC
News24 where even static studio shots are very blurred. But the pictures on
BBCTV1/2/4 generally look good to me.

FWIW the Freeview images we get here seem on the whole much better than
the analogue ones. Only complaint is that I haven't yet got an external
antenna so get occasional ignition interference on BBCTV4. Can't really
blame freeview for this, though... :-)

Slainte,

Jim

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"Alan Pemberton" wrote in message
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Paul Bird wrote:

I disagree. Freeview handles the white side of the colour spectrum very
poorly. Whenever an area of the picture is unusually bright, all detail
is
lost, and the area of the picture surrounding the white area tends to be
bleached.

Hardly conclusive evidence, but I have VHS recordings of TCW from
digital terrestrial and TCJ from analogue terrestrial (recorded in the
same session). On TCW both 'white-crush' flashing dots are clearly
visible, but on TCJ only the darker one is.

I don't understand either the acronyms you use, or your point. Are you
saying Freeview or analog pictures are better at dealing with light areas?

Paul

"Alan Pemberton" wrote in message
rve.co.uk.invalid...
My observation is contrary to yours, but represents a sample of only
one. Perhaps other would care to contribute thier own observations.

Fair comment. I haven't done test card comparisons of the effects I have
described, just from observation while watching videos. But I stand by my
observations.

Paul

"Nick" wrote in message
om...
I've recently returned from holiday in South Africa. My brother has
the DSTV satellite service and it was noticeable how much better the
picture quality was than Freeview. It was really as good as analogue
here. Apart from the occasional breakup on the Sky news channel you'd
really couldn't tell it was digital. How different from muddy, blurry
Freeview! OK, so I know that Freeview is subscription free but it's a
shame that the broadcasters couldn't have settled on a decent picture
quality.

You get what you pay for!


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John Porcella