[mythtvnz] TV2 moving to 1080i?

[Nick Rout]

On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Steven Ellis <steven at openmedia.co.nz>wrote:

>
> On 10/09/2010, at 8:16 AM, Jonathan Hoskin wrote:
>
> > 5.1 Audio will be along in a month or two as they finish migrating to
>> > their new playout equipment.
>>
>> OK I can see an increase in file size, not had a chance to see if
>> quality is any better yet. Moving to 5.1 audio, does that mean a
>> change in codec too? Where does this stuff get announced/discussed?
>
>
> Just compared Big Bang Theory from this week with last weeks episode.
> Granted I only have a 720p TV, it still looks slightly better, but I had to
> be standing right in front of my TV to see it. I'd be interested if it would
> help justify a 1080p TV to the CFO ;-)
>
> Please let the 5.1 Audio be AC3...
>
> Yes it will be AC3.
>
> Not sure if TV2 is airing HD copies of Big Bang. Do they have a HD logo on
> screen?
>
> Bitrate won't be changing as they are already running their DVB-T multiplex
> at capacity with 2HD and 2SD Channels. They are playing with the way the
> bitrates are allocated over the 4 channels to improve video on high movement
> scenes etc.
>
> Sadly there isn't an official forum for these discussions, just a
> combination of geekzone and Freeview NZ list on yahoo (
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Freeview_nz/)
>

Yahoo groups? Bleech

There is this forum http://www.nzdtv.com/forum/

also nz.tech newsgroup, although it's largely misinformd and dominated by an
idiot called woger.
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