http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/07/04/aussies-criticizing-seven-network-for-compressing-hd-feeds/ Engadget HD Comments for Aussies criticizing Seven Network for compressing HD feeds http://www.engadgethd.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadgethd.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/07/04/aussies-criticizing-seven-network-for-compressing-hd-feeds/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/07/04/aussies-criticizing-seven-network-for-compressing-hd-feeds/

HDNET was super. The rest was generally up-sampled and looked worse than SD. I will not pay a premium price for mediocre quality. When I returned the box to Adelphia / Time Warner, the lady behind the counter said "Well I have HD and I don't see anything wrong with my image". Right. On her standard TV ... Talked to a local executive of the ABC affiliate and he understood the issued, but said the signal was based on whatever ABC headquarters decided and made available to them, that they were not the source of the programming, nor the cable company. Which is true.

Too bad. I really like HD. Maybe in a few years I'll be back on HD when channels start to decide it is important to have a crisp image that doesn't have to catch up with itself (artifacts, ...) . ]]>Jul 4th 2007 10:20PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/07/04/aussies-criticizing-seven-network-for-compressing-hd-feeds/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/07/04/aussies-criticizing-seven-network-for-compressing-hd-feeds/What makes me really laugh is their constant promos for movies etc "in high def". I support the concept that multi-channeling is preferred to using the bandwidth for true HD, but at least move to 720P - and especially before the olympics next year.]]>Jul 5th 2007 3:54AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/07/04/aussies-criticizing-seven-network-for-compressing-hd-feeds/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/07/04/aussies-criticizing-seven-network-for-compressing-hd-feeds/ABC and SBS also have a lot of bandwidth taken up by ABC 2, SBS 2, various radio services over DVB-T.
(In Australia the government owned broadcasters, ABC and SBS, can multi channel under certain restrictions. Commercial ones currently can only multi channel for sport events)

And as Andrew notes, its never been taken seriously by 7. Most of the country is [probably] on $50 SDTV boxes anyway.
(From what I understand, the US has pushed for HDTV preferred over the air from the start. In Aus we've pushed for SDTV for the masses, then HDTV, as there are rampant interference problems relating to analogue transmissions of various channels. )]]>Jul 5th 2007 5:51AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/07/04/aussies-criticizing-seven-network-for-compressing-hd-feeds/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/07/04/aussies-criticizing-seven-network-for-compressing-hd-feeds/Jul 5th 2007 3:44PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/07/04/aussies-criticizing-seven-network-for-compressing-hd-feeds/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/07/04/aussies-criticizing-seven-network-for-compressing-hd-feeds/
What Seven have now is far better than what we had before, but they still have a little way to go before everyone is happy.]]>Jul 5th 2007 11:57PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2007/07/04/aussies-criticizing-seven-network-for-compressing-hd-feeds/http://www.engadgethd.com/2007/07/04/aussies-criticizing-seven-network-for-compressing-hd-feeds/Jul 6th 2007 1:12AM