It should be 12367V. Mine is slightly off, joshy's is waaay off!
It should be 12367V. Mine is slightly off, joshy's is waaay off!
OSIRUS (10-03-16)
beerman (15-03-16)
mine scanned in on 12371
No Gold left, but luckily I got a little Extra 4ME!
why is Win broadcasting on vast in SD & HD shouldnt all vast boxes already be mpeg 4 compatible, i understand terrestrial because it works on anything that receives dvb-t but not Vast
As far as I understand it, the signal from a VAST or any other STB is broken down into its various components and sent to the TV which has now become a Monitor bypassing the SD/HD tuner.
It was only ever the Tuner that was SD/HD, not the screen.
This is why you can attach ANY type of TV or Monitor be it a CRT, projector or LCD/Plasma and it can show the image received from the STB as either an AV, Component or HDMI input.
I stand unequivicably behind everything I say , I just dont ever remember saying it !!
Correct Gordon that's why I put the on the end as I was being facetious.
Fact is there shouldn't even be any SD only channels any more, they should all be HD & any shows that are old & low bit-rate can be either upscaled or broadcast at a lower bit-rate & resolution on the HD channels.
Just look at the, low bit-rate, low resolution, old shows that are on the HD channels like 7Mate & Gem now.
So there is no reason to have SD channels apart from maybe equipment & data rate costs.
Cheers, Tiny
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gordon_s1942 (14-04-16)
Partly right, Gordon.
Tuners and screens (plus other circuitry) determine what can be displayed.
A screen can only display resolutions up to it's designed maximum.
Eg: A screen with a resolution of 1024 × 768 will not accept a source with a resolution of 1920 × 1080
Yes, you can connect a full-HD source to a screen that cannot display 1920 x 1080, but you have to downscale it to match the screen's maximum resolution.
For instance, if you try to feed a 1080i video signal into a screen with a maximum resolution of 576i, it won't work.
You would need to set the output of the source (eg: STB) to 576i.
A bit OT, but that's how it works.
Also, the reason why all channels cannot be HD, is the limitation of bandwidth.
irritant (14-04-16)
Sorry Tiny, I should have been aware you were having a joke but I am sure you have run across people who are adamant that such a critter exists and wont be convinced otherwise.
Like my Late Grandmother who was convinced that you saw more of the same picture on a 21 Inch TV than a 14 inch one !!!
I have often wondered if she got that idea from the Movies because the projector lens was circular and there was a bit of a 'bleed over' if the black borders of the screen were a bit reflective.
I stand unequivicably behind everything I say , I just dont ever remember saying it !!
WIN's channels on VAST aren't just used for direct-to-home VAST viewers. They also convert them to DVB-T for terrestrial viewers. I'd say the SD and HD services are there to make that conversion easier. What I do find odd is SBS continues to simulcast SD and HD on VAST when their channels aren't converted to DVB-T at all. They should get rid of their SD simulcast.
Maybe because their allocated that 'space' and as they have nothing else to use it for they have chosen do it that way.
I stand unequivicably behind everything I say , I just dont ever remember saying it !!
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Bumping old topic. Is 9life still available in WA?? If so, anyway to get it from out of the state on a vast box?
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