The Natural Philosopher wrote:
se.
>
> Having a full screen telly on this 1280 x 1024 screen has been a bit of
> a revelation. F1 coverage is rather poor, picture wise. Then cut back to
> the studio, and its suddenly much higher definition.

Yes, but if the studio picture isn't very 'busy' it will look better than lots
of movement and detail on the F1 track. Detail and movement is bad news for
MPEG coding, random movement such as running water or smoke a disaster.

> I've just stuck SKY Sports news on
>
> the reported codec/resolutin is
>
> 25 frames a second MPEG audio, 720x576pixels.
>
> None of the other channels report the resolution.

I don't understand that. Are you saying that your receiver can only report the
resolution on SSN, and no other channel ? There's nothing in the channel's
data stream that can inhibit a receiver to report such detail.

FWIW BBC 1, 2, 3, 4, ITV 1, C4, and 5 were all at either 720x576 or 704x576 on
DTT last time I looked.

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