[opendtv] Re: Toward digital TV
- From: Barry Wilkins <barry.barrywilkins@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 10:57:49 +1300
O.K. Doug,
The implication though is that if they could double the bit rate per channel
by doing this then that suggests they could send more standard bit rate
channels, which I presume would be exactly what they would do in preference
to improving quality. Always it would appear to be the commercially
advantageous choice that gets the push, unless there was some enforcement of
a minimum standard. Do you agree?
Barry Wilkins
On 12/16/05, Doug McDonald <mcdonald@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Barry Wilkins wrote:
>
> > Hi folks,
> > I hope you will pardon a small diversion on the subject of "Toward
> digital
> > TV" but I have just had long and complicated discussions with a Sky New
> > Zealand technical representative as to why some of the channels they
> provide
> > on their digital satellite DTH service have such abysmally poor image
> > quality.
>
> In the US it is trivial: thay are transmitting some 2500 channels
> in inadequate bandwidth.
>
>
> If our government were smarter, they would require that the two
> satellite services merge their physicl layer and compete only
> on advertising, exclusive content, and price. This would double the
> bitrate for every channel.
>
> Doug McDonald
>
>
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