[opendtv] FW: Re: I have installed DVB-T
- From: "johnwillkie" <johnwillkie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 15:39:52 -0700
Forwarded from Donald K., for the reasons stated below.
John Willkie
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De: cooleman@xxxxxx [mailto:cooleman@xxxxxx]
Enviado el: Monday, July 09, 2007 11:44 AM
Para: johnwillkie
Asunto: Re: [opendtv] Re: I have installed DVB-T
John,
Private Spice, previously Platinum Spice, is a Dutch licenced pay-tv
channel jointly controlled by Private Media (Barcelona) and Playboy
International (London). Till last year there were two channels, now
the operations have been folded into one joint venture. Private was
active in France and some other markets, whereas Platinum Spice was
available in Holland via some operators and internationally by direct
subscription over satellite.
The Spice channel has been part of the Digitenne, and later KPN TV
pay-tv service for years as a basic-pay channel, so included in the
tier. But you do have to send back the postcard to have your card
activated for it (explict consent).
Canal+ had some capacity to run their own premium channels,
subscribable through Digitenne, but not through KPN, acting as a
reseller of the Digitenne package. However, that business was sold to
UPC (well Chellomedia) and KPN took control of the DVB-T service
(cable vs telco rivalry;-)), so they agreed to end the carriage
agreement just before the contract ran out, just in time for the
worldcup, and used the capacity for a 10 Mbit/s widescreen channel
carrying the public broadcaster's coverage of the tournament. The
public broadcasters chopping off the sides of the 16:9 captured games.
Currently they carry the two football channels from IPTV rival Tele2
(previously Versatel), as the only premium tier on top of the basic
pay service.
Picture quality is quite noisy and undefined, even the public
broadcasters' channels are no longer shielded from macroblocks. Even
some-one like me who has rather poor eyesight can see the macroblocks
on a small (32" gross 30" nett) widescreen tv. The Private/Playboy
controlled channel is one of the most severly macroblocking impaired
channels in the package.
Replacing the antique Philips encoders with recent Harmonic units
doesn't seem to have helped the image quality (efficiency probably is
better, but this is not used to enhanced picture quality), it looks
like they replaced other compression artifacts for macroblock with the
new encoders.
Feel free to forward to the list, as it doesn't accept postings from
my webmail account.
Donald
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