Better SD PQ?

[Mister B]

I had the Orby system on "pause" for the month of September as I knew that I would be out of town much of the month. This is one feature that I liked about this service. Now that I have it back it on, I am thinking that the picture quality is much better on the SD channels. In particular, before I found Science and AHC to be of a quality about the same as OTA SD sub-channels (at best) and now I actually had to take a close look to determine if they are SD or HD. They are still obviously SD but I am seeing no macro-blocking or rough edges around the logo. Is it possible they have improved their methods or something?

 

[truckracer]

I had the Orby system on "pause" for the month of September as I knew that I would be out of town much of the month. This is one feature that I liked about this service. Now that I have it back it on, I am thinking that the picture quality is much better on the SD channels. In particular, before I found Science and AHC to be of a quality about the same as OTA SD sub-channels (at best) and now I actually had to take a close look to determine if they are SD or HD. They are still obviously SD but I am seeing no macro-blocking or rough edges around the logo. Is it possible they have improved their methods or something?

I have noticed better pic quality also

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[truckracer]

I had the Orby system on "pause" for the month of September as I knew that I would be out of town much of the month. This is one feature that I liked about this service. Now that I have it back it on, I am thinking that the picture quality is much better on the SD channels. In particular, before I found Science and AHC to be of a quality about the same as OTA SD sub-channels (at best) and now I actually had to take a close look to determine if they are SD or HD. They are still obviously SD but I am seeing no macro-blocking or rough edges around the logo. Is it possible they have improved their methods or something?

They could be using a variable bitrate and giving certain channels more definition at certain times.

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[sty6]

Wouldn't be surprised they are using statmux gear. The lowly channels give it up when the big boy channels need it.

 

[truckracer]

Wouldn't be surprised they are using statmux gear. The lowly channels give it up when the big boy channels need it.

Sometimes MTV classic has some mosquito noise in the audio from compression artifacts. Other times its clear and clean.

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