Mnet bugger up

arf9999 said:
in German?
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Naturlich, in Deutsch!

My wife is German and I am learning to speak it...so we figured it was a good way for her to keep up-to-date and for me to get more exposure to it.

For those driver who are not German they interview in English and then have a German voice-over. I suspect that the coverage was so good because the race was in Germany - I'll be interested to see what it is like at the next race.
 
M-net is becoming much like Telkom.... a very greedy and incompetent company.

I managed to live without M-net now for 5 years. The internet is far more interesting and we hire DVD's when we want to watch movies or we go to the cinema.
 
The only reason I have to get DSTV is for the Sport. Man, I miss watching all the sport!!

Movies and series, well Movies I can watch at Nu Metro for R5 a movie, and series... well let's just say , thankyou ADSL!!

BTW. how do you get free content from that Euro Sat??

:)
 
I pay R 400 a month for sport. It's crazy. I'm sick of it. And Terry Paine.
 
ja the French Open also went AWOL. Strange though, I could sort of keep track of it by switching to channel 20 where they show SS1 to 4 simultaneously by dividing the screen into 4.
 
It would be pretty cool if we could buy per channel, and get charged per channel - say R25 a channel. I'd only subscribe to 10 channels, and subscription would only be R250.00 a month.

What Euro channels can we get if we point the dish in other direction?
 
Is it just me or are they compressing their streams a little too much lately ?

Noticed how pictures pixelate during a fast moving sceNe ?

I just think the quality is beginning to look more and more like that Reality TV channel.

Anyone experienced this ?
 
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qDot said:
Is it just me or are they compressing their streams a little too much lately ?

Noticed how pictures pixelate during a fast moving sceNe ?

I just think the quality is beginning to look more and more like that Reality TV channel.

Anyone experienced this ?
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yes. block noise, motion artifacts, poor colour depth, colour noise. Multichoice are pushing more and more channels down the same pipe, instead of increasing the size of the pipe. The problem is that they are checking it on a 14" monitor, and they can't see what it looks like on a reasonable size TV. Also, most South Africans wouldn't know good TV quality if it kicked them in the nuts.
 
qDot said:
Is it just me or are they compressing their streams a little too much lately ?

Noticed how pictures pixelate during a fast moving sceNe ?

I just think the quality is beginning to look more and more like that Reality TV channel.

Anyone experienced this ?
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I've noticed this for years already. I find the quality differs from day to day.
Action X and Reality TV is generally badly compressed. Also on DMX, I've noticed sometimes the audio sounding like online radio. Then later in the day its near cd quality again.

Years ago I talked to someone at Stellenbosch University that helped set up the compression scheme. He said the scheme allows for allocating different amounts of bandwidth to each channel depending on how "busy" the program is. At the time, the dynamic bandwidth allocation was not implemented, but maybe they've started doing it since then.

I wish they'd start with Dolby Digital (5.1 channel) audio broadcasting. It has been in the pipeline for a few years already.
 
Years ago I talked to someone at Stellenbosch University that helped set up the compression scheme. He said the scheme allows for allocating different amounts of bandwidth to each channel depending on how "busy" the program is. At the time, the dynamic bandwidth allocation was not implemented, but maybe they've started doing it since then.
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You are correct, it's in the MPEG specification for the system Multichoice uses. I heard the same story from people I met who work for UEC
 
I wish there was some kind of device once could plug on the LNB cable that somehow stReams to the monitor or some logging device; what Audio and Video compression is coming down the line.

Multichoice being as big as their are, it would be nice for Joe Public to say "Hey, your signal is poor and I have the 'logs' to prove it".
 
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I'm also wish for the day they introduce Dolby Digital.

Only thing is the compression. If they're so compressed now, can you imagine with another 3.1 channels of higher quality audio? Yuck! I'd rather keep with a half decent stereo mix.
 
yea, and the dual view decoders have got a coax output, perfect for 5.1 stream's..... How do they tell how busy/used a channel is at any one time for the dynamic compression??? Our decoders can only recieve data, not send back to multichoice?? or did i read it wrong, and its more like a VBR compression where scenes that have lots of movement get more bandwidth than the one's with little movement??
 
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