[mythtv-users] UK Only OT - IS the BT Showcase channel truly representative of BT Sports channel quality

[Another Sillyname]

Thanks Mike

You're comments re the quality put my mind at rest, BT can give me
70mb+ on Fibre as I'm only 200 yds from the street cabinet
(Wheeeeeeeee!!).

I've would seem to me exceptionally stupid to be showing 'promo' games
on the showcase in such dire quality as it's more likely to put people
off then get them to sign up.

There again, for it's many skills BT are still learning how to do a
lot of things correctly.





On 1 October 2015 at 22:26, Mike Perkins <mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk> wrote:
> On 01/10/15 20:20, Another Sillyname wrote:
>>
>> I recorded the ManC game on the BT Showcase channel yesterday and
>> having just watched it it's the worst fuzzyvision I've seen for a
>> while....artifacting and dithering was rampant.......is this truly
>> representative of how good (bad) picture quality is on the BT sports
>> channels?
>>
>> I ask as I'm son to review my Broadband provider and I can only say BT
>> are now likley out of the running and I hate all things Murderoch and
>> his Witch Bitch.
>>
> I don't know about BT Showcase, but I suspect that it is low bitrate as it
> is only to demonstrate the available channels. I could be wrong - who knows
> what goes on inside a marketer's brain!
>
> We have the basic BT Vision package, which includes BT Sport 1, BT Sport 2
> and BT Europe for free (conditions apply!). The quality of these is
> extremely good. So much so, in fact, that I am considering dropping the HD
> option which started out as a free taster for a year but is now £5/month.
> None of us can tell the difference.
>
> Of course, those channels get to you via your broadband connection, which
> means that it depends on how good your length of copper is. Mine seems to be
> adequate for our needs. I haven't even bothered to test the speed on it yet,
> it just hasn't been an issue.
>
> Incidentally, the quality of anything we record with myth and then play back
> later is always better than that supplied if we just watch it through the TV
> direct. I don't know if that is a reformatting issue or something else our
> end. We don't however, record any of the BT broadband channels, since the
> box only outputs SCART and HDMI, we only record OTA.
>
> --
>
> Mike Perkins
>
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