Sky is becoming bad quality…

November 27, 2005 by Oliver
Filed under: Technology 

For anyone outside the UK, I’m referring to the digital TV broadcast by British Sky Broadcasting (if that is still their name).

They are stuffing far too many channels on there and as a consequence the quality is dropping. Before, you could occasionally see compression artefacts on the images, now they are everywhere. It’s especially noticeable with full screen changes when it’s dark. And once you know what it looks like it is impossible to ignore.

I have a scary theory though. Next year they are going to release SkyHD – basically Sky transmitting a High Definition signal. Now if they compress the channels the way they are now then it really won’t help since compression artefacts look worse at high resolutions. Unless the reason they are compressing channels is to fit higher bandwidth HD signals in. Or they could be doing it intentionally to exaggerate the gains from HDTV…

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2 Comments on Sky is becoming bad quality…

  1. Jonny on Mon, 28th Nov 2005 9:52 pm

    2. oi brown, when you bringing galaxia back up and running, oh and as to your sky tv theory, its good, but theres still one thing missing…. theres varied UFOS buzzing around the SKY sat, and therefore making watching SKY tv annoying and tiring

  2. RyanC on Tue, 29th Nov 2005 1:40 pm

    3. I know what you mean, it happens more and more.

    Sky were also recently complained about by Ofcom due to them breaking some legislation about the frequency of advertisement breaks in programs. Apparantly there should be at least 15 minutes of program between each advert break…

    Most of the time you get an advert at 6 minutes past the hour, which goes on for 5 minutes, ridiculous!