On Friday 14 May 2004 23:45, Jerico Webmail wrote: > Well, I can tell you we don't get any metadata for that here. :)
Not yet... ;) > People controling the money seem to have not spoken to those who actually > use this compression hardware. Can't wait to see the customer response when > the new system goes on air... Oh dear :) When management and reality collide... sure if MPEG-4 was used, no probs... but alas next-to-nothing supports it yet. Our cableco does squeeze 10 or so TV channels per 8MHz multiplex, but there's a lot of QAM64 squishiness going on, so I guess the usable bitrate is higher that with sateliite's QPSK, hence the quality is OK. A lot of digital TV still annoys me - especially as you point out the problems with smooth colour gradients, and whilst I don't see pure colour blocks, I do see a lot of blockiness on the FTA channels who get lowest priority on the statmuxing, but I also see it on national broadcasters (BBC ONE on DVB-T is supposedly allocated 15Mbps if you believe the headers....) and it's a bit saddening :/ At least the advantage is pure digital recordings that always replay at precisely the same quality as they were received at. So much for progress :) Cheers, Gavin -- Info: To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe linux-dvb" as subject.
