<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 10/09/2010, at 8:16 AM, Jonathan Hoskin wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">> 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>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/">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Freeview_nz/</a>)</div><br><div>
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