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adoniteINK

9:49 AM on 17 September, 2008

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"Too little too late?"....someone has has been listening to a lot of "JoJo" lately. ;)

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Matt G Baish

10:34 AM on 17 September, 2008

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Too expensive!! What is the matter with *ALL* these pay per view companies? I can rent cheaper than that. I would say £2 for a new release and £1 otherwise then maybe they will have something compelling (i.e. a win-win; easy distribution and impulse-buy pluses for the providers and cheaper, simple to obtain films for us lot).

It may well be 'HD' - but we all know there are a plethora of different stuff that is labelled 'HD' willy-nilly; and the 1080i encoding does nothing to encourage me otherwise (why not the superior, IMHO, 720p?) - at 8 GB these will also likely be heavily compressed aka Sky 'HD'.

So for me - rent the DVD - or buy it in the case of kids films, since they generally get watched about a zillion times (actually I exaggerate a bit - the discs tend to pack in before the kids do!!! :))

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Matt G Baish

10:40 AM on 17 September, 2008

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To answer my own rhetorical question `why not the superior, IMHO, 720p?` I guess its because 1080i has roughly (as a educated guess) the same amount of information as in a 540p picture. Ho hum.

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Beaky69

12:12 PM on 17 September, 2008

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Shouldn't 100Hz processing on modern TVs help address the deficits of interlaced video? Of course it won't help with compression artefacts, however.

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Technologychangesandsoshouldyou

1:30 PM on 17 September, 2008

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When the HD standard was specified, studies were conducted to show that 1080i and 720p were roughly equivalent in terms of 'look'; interlacing does not have 'half' the resolution but is a compromise between static pictures and motion. The trouble, as Matt eluded, is the compression: the picture may look lovely in Hi-Def when still, but introduce movement and the compression has to put in artefacts to try to compensate for the reduced bandwidth of the source (yes the internal HDD has a high bandwidth, but the content does not, and one purposely limits the bandwidth to save on download time - if 9 hours can be called fast - and allow the box to be able to deal with multiple streams at once, like recording TV at the same time as watching a film).

Rather than too little too late, I'd say it was too much too early. This service cannot possibly be expected to work for consumers unless there is a national roll-out of fibre optic in whichever country it is deployed. In the meantime, BT need to try competing with the likes of YouTube and IMDb (or possibly tie-in with them). This service would be better waiting for BT to do a deal with the likes of Blockbuster to get a decent library ready for when broadband is fast enough. It can only be called a trial until then.

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Matt G Baish

2:48 PM on 17 September, 2008

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@Beaky69 - Not really - you are still only getting half the picture & then the TVs post-process that to 'guess' (i.e. de-interlace) the pictures - or does it add them up i can;t remember - whatever its NEVER going to be as good as 1080p o=for example.

On my TV 720P >>>>> better than 1080i (Sony TOTR a coupole a years ago)

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Gordon394

11:43 AM on 18 September, 2008

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@adoniteINK - clearly you. Who is Jojo?! It's a very old phrase ;)

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