Low HD picture quality, high compression or what???

[mmulet]

Pixelization usually indicates a poor satellite signal, in my experience.

What is your signal strength?

Also, SD on Voom, in general, seems to be worse for most people when compared to D* or E*. Its a little odd that in your case, it seems reversed.

mmulet

 

[mmulet]

Please ignore my previous post. I responded erroneously prior to reading the entire thread.

mmulet

 

[Conjuror]

http://www.voom.com/newsletter/may_resource1.jsp?id=2

Quote from the above link:
"In order to deliver the best HDTV experience, VOOM uses the majority of its bandwidth to properly compress and send its HD lineup by using MPEG-2 compression. Some providers have so many cable channels that they are left with little room for HD programming, and are forced to overcompress the signal in order to send all their channels. The result is decreased picture quality, which kind of defeats the purpose of enjoying HDTV, doesn't it? "

How ironic. Why in the world so many people here complain about Voom's PQ? Apparently they (Voom) didn't get the message.

 

[andrzej]

http://www.voom.com/newsletter/may_resource1.jsp?id=2

Quote from the above link:
"In order to deliver the best HDTV experience, VOOM uses the majority of its bandwidth to properly compress and send its HD lineup by using MPEG-2 compression. Some providers have so many cable channels that they are left with little room for HD programming, and are forced to overcompress the signal in order to send all their channels. The result is decreased picture quality, which kind of defeats the purpose of enjoying HDTV, doesn't it? "

How ironic. Why in the world so many people here complain about Voom's PQ? Apparently they (Voom) didn't get the message.

Why? Because we have high expectations and because it is easy to complain.
Btw. There are more people complaining about D*'s PQ - obviously not here.

 

[Dvlos]

So you're telling me even with MPEG4 and WM9 there will be no noticeable improvement in PQ?

 

[snathanb]

So you're telling me even with MPEG4 and WM9 there will be no noticeable improvement in PQ?

I don't think that's why they are moving to WM9.. not for improved quality.. for improved compression (more channels in the same space).

 

[Sean Mota]

It looks like the one dish solution with the new satellite at 72 degrees may happen first. See here:

http://www.satelliteguys.us/showthread.php?t=19232

The questions are:

(1) will they shift some of the programming in Rainbow 1 to 72 degrees and therefore increase quality. or

(2) will they use this new slot for new programming.

After October, 2004, it will be interested to see what's done.

 

[barth2k]

For Voom, PQ isn't so much a matter of bandwidth availability as priority. They could've gone with fewer channels and better PQ, but they wanted to be able to tout 39 HD channels and PQ suffers for it.

Mpeg4 will free up some bandwidth, but if they choose to use the bandwidth to fill up more channels instead of improving PQ, then we're no better off.

 

[Conjuror]

It looks like the one dish solution with the new satellite at 72 degrees may happen first. See here:

http://www.satelliteguys.us/showthread.php?t=19232

The questions are:

(1) will they shift some of the programming in Rainbow 1 to 72 degrees and therefore increase quality. or

(2) will they use this new slot for new programming.

After October, 2004, it will be interested to see what's done.

Finally Sean (indirectly though) admits that there is a PQ issue. If Voom folks would just tell us that PQ will be improved after October 1st, there would be no need to have topics like this one. I will wait to see what happens.