Originally Posted by TheAnimus
what i find truely astounding is the piss poor quality of sky's regular standard definition service.
Its just plain awful. Far too compressed, far too many artifacts. No matter how you try to upscale it, it comes out looking poor.
garbage in, garbage out. most of the channels on sky use tiny bitrates and sub-SD resolution. many of the channels on freeview too.
consider how a PAL MPEG2 image looks at 2mbit/sec (the average for channel 5), then consider that it drops down as low as 0.5mbit at times
bitrates on satellite tend to be even worse