MultiChoice's HD broadcasting plans

yeah i bet HD broadcasting will run uber nice on IPTV over a 4mbit ADSL line :>>> *not*

4mbit will only keep up with normal resolutions... maybe even lower than 640x480
 
He HOPES we will be able to watch it in HD!:eek: We BETTER have it broadcast to us in HD else Ill be a little p1ssed.
 
What does he mean the business plan is still elusive?

They are over charging for the std res. crap at the moment...
 
Multichoice are going to use the 720p HD standard. Some would argue that this is not TRUE HD!
 
HD IPTV in SA?? @ 70/GB

LOL

Maybe Thabo can afford it with his new salary, if he doesn't spend it all on walls around his house. Oh wait, he uses tax payers money for that...

:-)
 
I download my tv shows. Most of the shows are in HD these days anyway
 
RichardP said:
LOL .. normal res is 575 :-P Add 72 pixels to each side and call it HD :-P

/me watches 1080p on Sky+
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? 575 is number of horizontal lines. normal PAL 720x575 (max), 720p = 1280x720...
..a bit different..no?


oh, btw SkyHD+ is 1080i...
 
Skeptik said:
Multichoice are going to use the 720p HD standard. Some would argue that this is not TRUE HD!
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TRUE HD? Huh?

720p is HD! (Nobody is debating it - it's just a fact)

The R500000 Panasonic Varicam only shoots 720p
Have a look at the shots from that thing and tell me its not HD.


HIGH DEFINITION (HD) BROADCAST SYSTEMS are digital, having 720 or more scan lines and an aspect ratio of 16:9.

HDTV

Japan's NHK inaugurated HD 16:9 broadcasting in 1988, using an analog system with 1035i (interlace) lines of active picture. By 2001 over one million HD receivers had been sold, and six other Japanese broadcasters had joined with NHK to satellite broadcast digital 1080i (interlace) programming 17 hours daily.

United States broadcasters tested various approaches to HD 16:9 for many years. Limited HD broadcasting started in the U.S. in late 1998, using a digital HD system with 1080i (interlace) lines of active picture, followed by another digital system with 720p (progressive) lines. HD programming is now broadcast several hours a day in many markets and is available by satellite on a rapidly expanding schedule.

Many other countries are rapidly moving toward HD and / or a Standard Definition (SD) digital system with an increasing use of widescreen 16:9.
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You get
1.) 720p
2.) 1080i
3.) 1080p (not a broadcast standard - but most HD-DVD/Blue-Ray have 1080p)

"p" is for progressive which means that the entire frame is shown 50 times a second
i.e. 1280x720x50

"i" is for interlaced which means that half of the lines are shown the first 1/50th of a second, and then the next half of the lines for the following 1/50th. And so on and so forth. Each frame is made up of two fields (upper and lower fields).


Interlaced is like this: [upper field][lower field][upper field][lower field][upper field][lower field]...
Progressive is like this: [full frame][full frame][full frame][full frame][full frame][full frame][full frame]...
 
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