Cutting down Sky TV package: No HD?

chewyluis

Neil_Jones said:

Sky do not control the bitrate of channels with the exception of the ones they own/run (they have their own playout facilities as opposed to pumping it through the likes of RedBee).  All the other channels on the platform are at the decision of their respective playout operations as to their bitrate of choice.

So if it looks like mushyvision, it's not always Sky's fault.

Yes I was referring to Sky's own channels, especially sports and entertainment. Sports in SD is a blurry mess I've seen better free streams online. The prices Sky charge for sports it's laughable how bad it is.

I'm aware other channels make their own choices.

brewerdave

SyFy channel is almost unwatchable in SD now as is Alibi. 

JSmithy45AD

brewerdave said:

SyFy channel is almost unwatchable in SD now as is Alibi. 

They quite deliberately lower the signal quality on SD channels in order to 'upgrade' people to HD, they also lower the sound quality at the same time.

prowla

Carrot007 said:

You will be able to watch them. But ick. I wish they would just ive everyone a new box and get rid of the SD channels to save space for the horrible sub SD channlels and force them to pay for a decent bitrate (though moving everything to h265 would help even with the same space. Could still offer "sd" anyway as the box is pefectly capable of downscaling.

Only BBC SD is SD on sky everything else looks like the old SD (was it in the 60s where the HD upgrade occured?).

The 1st BBC One which appears on the planner is SD, but the one a couple of pages down is HD.

I keep thinking it's about time they reordered those channels.

Neil_Jones

prowla said:

Carrot007 said:

You will be able to watch them. But ick. I wish they would just ive everyone a new box and get rid of the SD channels to save space for the horrible sub SD channlels and force them to pay for a decent bitrate (though moving everything to h265 would help even with the same space. Could still offer "sd" anyway as the box is pefectly capable of downscaling.

Only BBC SD is SD on sky everything else looks like the old SD (was it in the 60s where the HD upgrade occured?).

The 1st BBC One which appears on the planner is SD, but the one a couple of pages down is HD.

I keep thinking it's about time they reordered those channels.

It's a requirement of Ofcom to have the regional variations of channels first on the platform EPG on any platform, which takes priortiy over any HD offerings if they're not available for the PSB channels 

.For the BBC that means outside of England you get your region on 101 (the nations get their BBC One HD equivalent on 101), and as BBC Two is not regionalised, it goes on 102.  Your ITV region on 103 (if its not in HD it'll be the closest equivalent region), Channel 4 HD on Sky is a single nationwide feed (its regionalised on Freeview) and Channel 5 is one national feed too.

All the other BBC regions are from channel 950 upwards.