8PSK Conversion

i believe that has to do with FSN's pq sometimes depending on the region.

As for me, I still notice tons of macroblocking and bad pq on the tonight show with Conan O'Biran, anyone else?
 
Now that everyone with old HD receivers have switched to the new 8PSK compatible receivers, are these receivers also MPEG4 compatible... Do you think we will be seeing the MPEG4 switch soon?
 
I think some channels have improved in PQ (or maybe it is just me). I watch mainly sports and feel that TSNHD, MLBHD and SportsnetHD have improved.
I am watching the Als and Ti-Cats on TSNHD right now and the PQ is fabulous.
 
That, and the fact that most of the HD stations we're waiting for are not even approved for distribution in Canada yet. There is plenty of blame to go around.

-Mike
 
Actually you are wrong :)

The original Dish 6000's were sold wothout the module. Users were given the option to upgrade (for a cost). Those models became known as 6000U (upgraded).

Bell never offered the upgrade.
 
I really hope the 8psk tranfer goes smoothly wit hno problems!

Hopefully they will add a slate of channels like GolfHD, SpeedHD, CNNHD

Maybe some Canadian channels will launch hd soon :)
 
The HD quality will improve, unless they try to jam too many channels onto a transponder. If they have 4 channels per transponder, the quality should be very good.
 
Actually, MPEG4 from the US providers looks quite good. Certainly better the Bell's over-compressed MPEG2. And I doubt Bell will use 8PSK to improve PQ, but rather to load up more channels per transponder.
 
No 8PSK as of yet! Only transponder 5 on Nimiq 4. I wonder if they are having technical problems or, more likely, just plain lazy.
 
No worries reidw, I hope you didn't take my as being rude, I didn't intead that, but after reading your apologies, and re-reading my post, I thought I may have offended you...I'm sorry if I did
 
Hmmm...96 HD channels?
30 - PPV
20 - Revue PPV
10 - French PPV
10 - reserved for Sports Packages (Centre Ice, Sunday Ticket, etc)
6 - Barker
That leaves only 20...Which channels will Bell cut?
Methinks we best let them go with 128 :p
 
Agreed...but I know that channels such as Newsworld-HD, Speed-HD and out west Encore Avenue-HD have all been approved and yet we're still waiting...that's on Bell-TV.
 
lots of irds are not mpeg 4. i know the 6100 and the 9200 are not.
i wouldnt see this happening for a few years at best. my guess with how bell is draggin on the hd i would guess more than 3 years for sure.
 
Even if we don't get any improvement in picture quality, which would be bad, I at least hope Bell will switch all the channels that broadcast in 1080i back to 1080i and quit with the downconvert to 720p. That is a big reason for the soft images on some channels like NBCHD and CBSHD. When the channel is broadcasting in 1080i and Bell is not showing them in the proper resolution, of course there will be some loss of detail. Bell should even switch CTV and TSN to 1080i instead of the 720p feed they get.
 
To repeat Paulo's question: Has Bell actually switched to 8PSK on live HD channels yet?

I thought the consensus a few days ago was that there was testing going on with "test" transponders only. Perhaps this sub-standard video quality is caused by something else?
 
32 transponders per satellite (or orbital slot), and some contain only SD content which likely won't get switched. So at 1 additional channel per HD transponder could mean 25-30 new HD channels. I don't know if they'll try to squeeze more than that. Hopefully not before MPEG4.

-Mike
 
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