Another area that I need to dig into is the matter of video resolution. I have a nice 4k smart television and access to HD TV channels give the best results, but many of the current free channels are actually rather lower resolution that even VNS tapes used to provide. A number of years ago, Quest provided a HD channel and I still had a large number of recorded shows on the
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Another area that I need to dig into is the matter of video resolution. I have a nice 4k smart television and access to HD TV channels give the best results, but many of the current free channels are actually rather lower resolution that even VNS tapes used to provide. A number of years ago, Quest provided a HD channel and I still had a large number of recorded shows on the various TV boxes that I had ( Media Box on ((Equipment Inventory \ Up until May 2020 at Smallbrook Road)) - Up until May 2020 at Smallbrook Road)) ). The current SD channels come in via the remaining Xtrend ET8500 with a resolution of 544x576 which is well below the 768 pixels that a normal 4 by 3 televison used to provide. When scalled to a wide screen TV, the horizontal resolution is even softer. When compared with new HD programs I can download from BBC iPlayer the difference is chalk and cheese. Even those ripped from the DVD's which gives 720x576 such as My NCIS collection where Seasons 1 to 8 are ripped from an old boxed set while the current run on 5USA which has reached Season 6 again is at the lower resolution. On the TODO list is to investigate just what some of the ((Media Server Video Resolution|different resolutions actually mean)). |
