vurbano said:
My guess is they had to up the compression on certain groups of channels to squeeze into a transpoder space and ran into problems.
vurbano, with all respect, your guess, as good as it may sound, is just that - a guess. And as madpoet mentioned above, this guess completely contradicts with what Wilt stated many times in the past. Wilt has all the facts and knows the real situation. None of us so far had any reasons to doubt Wilt's honesty. So, if Wilt says that they've been running all
39 HD channels at full load from day one without any effect on picture quality, why should we not trust him on this? Wilt has also explained what may have caused the PQ degradation over the past couple of months: the encoder upgrade, not the addition of the channels. So, from this standpoint, any HD channels are better than no channels at all, at least until we reach the 39-channel mark.
As for MOOV, I think this is great and admirable that VOOM and Rainbow are not afraid to push the limit and experiment with new forms of arts and offer unprecedented channels and programs. I am sick and tired of so-called "most favorite channels" and really excited to see a fresh wave of channels, especially artistic channels, like Gallery, Moov, Ultra or BravoHD+, for that matter. Yes, they have not matured yet, don't have enough programming and selection is not yet top of the line. But give them a chance! Remember, they are infants! They are 6 months old!
And no, I wasn't among those 2 who included MOOV in their favorites, but I would readily trade a bunch of SD channels that I never watch to keep MOOV alive, even if I don't watch it too often.
. Or at the least, it was not bandwidth related. Again, they run at a full load all the time, regardless of the number of real HD channels they send to us. They duplicate transponder data from existing channels to fill the blank space. So regardless of how many HD channels we see on our end, Voom is pushing the data for a full load (39) through the transponder at all times.
