[mythtv-users] How does SKY deinterlace TV

[Robert Johnston]

On 6/1/06, James Buckley <james at logicland.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi, does anyone know how SKY deinterlaces TV.  Watching a channel on sky
> yields a high frame rate, with no BOBing, which means that the STB must be
> doing some clever deinterlacing. The DVB-S stream must be interlaced, so how
> does SKY do it?

They don't. The SKY box outputs standard PAL signals, which are
interlaced. Because PAL stands for "Phase Alternate Line".

> This same question can be applied to freeview boxes and TV's with inbuilt
> freeview receivers.

Same answer.

PAL is 50Hz, with 25 "Fields" per second.
-- 
Robert "Anaerin" Johnston