On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 09:04:21AM -0700, Michael J McCafferty wrote:
Interesting. There is an HD setup in the lobby of the data center. I must have spent a thousand hours on the couch watching discovery channel and misc sports that I am not interested in (but is a safe alternative to history channel's death camp shows).
The painful times I've been in Best Buy, I've glanced at the "HD" programming showing on the TVs there. They're advertising one of the satellite services, and the signal seems to be from there. The channels seem to have a lot of variety as to how much bandwidth they allocate. Discover seems to use a lot. There were some programs that looks like they'd been run through the oil-painting photoshop filter. Yes, it's still HD in resolution, but there's not exactly any detail. Not quite sure I understand the point in encoding HD at such a low resolution that it looks worse than standard definition TV. Of the BlueRay disks I've watched, most seem to run at 20-25 Mbits/sec. I would guess that the TV variants of HD don't use anywhere close to this much bandwidth, which explains why they look so much worse. David -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
