[opendtv] Re: Toward digital TV
- From: Cliff Benham <cbenham@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 19:39:09 -0500
Yep, more dull pictures of more dumb programs.
Barry Wilkins wrote:
>O.K. Doug,
>The implication though is that if they could double the bit rate per channel
>by doing this then that suggests they could send more standard bit rate
>channels, which I presume would be exactly what they would do in preference
>to improving quality. Always it would appear to be the commercially
>advantageous choice that gets the push, unless there was some enforcement of
>a minimum standard. Do you agree?
>
>Barry Wilkins
>
>
>On 12/16/05, Doug McDonald <mcdonald@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
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>>Barry Wilkins wrote:
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>>>Hi folks,
>>>I hope you will pardon a small diversion on the subject of "Toward
>>>
>>>
>>digital
>>
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>>>TV" but I have just had long and complicated discussions with a Sky New
>>>Zealand technical representative as to why some of the channels they
>>>
>>>
>>provide
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>>>on their digital satellite DTH service have such abysmally poor image
>>>quality.
>>>
>>>
>>In the US it is trivial: thay are transmitting some 2500 channels
>>in inadequate bandwidth.
>>
>>
>>If our government were smarter, they would require that the two
>>satellite services merge their physicl layer and compete only
>>on advertising, exclusive content, and price. This would double the
>>bitrate for every channel.
>>
>>Doug McDonald
>>
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