<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Steven Ellis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:steven@openmedia.co.nz">steven@openmedia.co.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div style="word-wrap: break-word;"><br><div><div><div></div><div class="h5"><div>On 10/09/2010, at 8:16 AM, Jonathan Hoskin wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div>> 5.1 Audio will be along in a month or two as they finish migrating to<br>
> their new playout equipment.<br>
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</div>OK I can see an increase in file size, not had a chance to see if<br>
quality is any better yet. Moving to 5.1 audio, does that mean a<br>
change in codec too? Where does this stuff get announced/discussed?</blockquote><div><br></div><div>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 ;-)</div>
<div><br></div><div>Please let the 5.1 Audio be AC3... </div><div><br></div></div></blockquote></div></div>Yes it will be AC3.</div><div><br></div><div>Not sure if TV2 is airing HD copies of Big Bang. Do they have a HD logo on screen?</div>
<div><br></div><div>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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Sadly there isn't an official forum for these discussions, just a combination of geekzone and Freeview NZ list on yahoo (<a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Freeview_nz/" target="_blank">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Freeview_nz/</a>)</div>
</div></blockquote><div><br>Yahoo groups? Bleech<br><br>There is this forum <a href="http://www.nzdtv.com/forum/">http://www.nzdtv.com/forum/</a><br><br>also nz.tech newsgroup, although it's largely misinformd and dominated by an idiot called woger.<br>
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