List of Channels in 720p or 1080i

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As has been confirmed by Jason Sokoloski, Director of Broadcast Operations, BEV on their forum, BEV does the re-encoding.

If you take out the PR marketting mumbo-jumbo out of the press releases like these
http://vutechinfo.ca/vuforum/viewtopic.php?t=146 and 18 months ago
http://www.digitalhome.ca/forum/showthread.php?p=439868&highlight=marketnews#post439868
that only BEV fans can believe in, it boils down to:

"We do everything to maximize profit.
Your - customer's - opinion is important only as long as it help that goal.
If it doesn't - we couldn't care less what you think."

trafficinfo, do you believe there is a place for Don Quixote in our times?
 
I have noticed a distinct reduction in image quality over the past 6 or so months on my ExpressVu HD channels. The biggest problem is how there are now TONS of deinterlacing errors showing up.

Due to this, I decided to examine the transport streams and discovered that absolutely everything (I get) seems to now be running at 720p, while previously "some" of the channels had been 1080i. Searching the web I came upon this thread.

I watch all of my HD content on my native 1080i rear projection HDTV and 1080i DOES look much better than 720p, not to mention the fact that there are now tons of deinterlacing errors in how Bell does their own 1080i to 720p transcoding.

What I don't understand is why would they switch to 720p?

The bandwidth requirements for 720p are roughly 1280x720x24bitsx60fps=1.3Gbps
The bandwidth requirements for 1080i are roughly 1920x1080x24bitsx30fps=1.5Gbps

Once you add highly optimised lossy mpeg-2 compression, I would expect the true bandwidth requirements would be very close.
 
Granduncle, maybe the Spanish in me believes so, lol lol lol or maybe Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra was my Grand Grand Grand .... still more Grand Granduncle, lol lol lol lol. Would you be related to Sancho Panza, though?, lol lol lol.
 
*C converts all HD to 1080i. See the following thread on HD Formats.

http://www.digitalhome.ca/forum/showthread.php?t=76129
 
I believe the only channel that has 1080i is CBC HD that's it as far to my knoledge. Honestly you don't really notice that big a difference between the two.
 
just more conversion.. but one thing to remeber with starchoice is that its customers are basically accessing the same channels cable providers get, so in reality,, starchoice doesnt change anything, its shaw broadcast that does what it choses to with the signal.
 
Most of the hd channels are either pay per view or subscription channels or sports channels. My family is not into sports channels, we are into everything else.
 
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