[mythtvnz] Idle Query - what resolution is Prime on Freeview HD?

[Nick Rout]

On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 5:01 PM,  <tortise at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
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> From: "Nick Rout" <nick.rout at gmail.com>
> To: "MythTV in NZ" <mythtvnz at lists.linuxnut.co.nz>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2009 4:32 PM
> Subject: [mythtvnz] Idle Query - what resolution is Prime on Freeview HD?
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>
> Subject says it all :)
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> Howdy Nick
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> One easy way to find out is to play it live - or play a recording in VLC - which will play it at its native resolution for any
> particular recording.  Its file information will give detailed and perhaps helpful codec information for both video and audio.
>

I don't have freeview|HD so thats why it was an "idle query"  :)

I was debating with someone whether they got topgear in HD via freeview.

Out if similar interest, what channels on Sky are really HD?

> I am not sure if mplayer does this so easily.
>
> I do not know however the different programs might be at different resolutions, although the bandwidth may not be there to support
> more than 576i.
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> My observations of DVB-T Prime ("HD" is likely misleading in the title - but then I am not sure you will find an official source
> that expresses it that way?) is its quality is superior to SD Prime analogue, however analogue Prime was always inferior to TV3
> (which was for me always the best analogue quality).
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