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[Nickbat]

Some of you with very, very long memories will remember that I was considering buying an Octo LNB satellite dish to receive Freesat. Well, I went ahead and bought one on eBay...and for the last two years at least it has resided in my shed.

I have taken advantage of the scaffolding round my house to replace my terrestrial aerial and mount, on the same pole, the dish. Using the satellite finder I bought at the same time, I rigged it up and now have full HD.

Just in time for the Belgian Grand Prix!! 

[Mr Skrunts]

Cant fault you. 

[Varche]

Hope you enjoy the race. I will be watching on my massive 20 inch Phillips CRT (with integral VHS deck that long since stopped working).

Here is hoping we don't have any power cuts.......

[tunnie]

HD makes things so much more clear, SD looks fuzzy!

Super HiVis is next though 

[Del Boy]

HD makes things so much more clear, SD looks fuzzy!

Super HiVis is next though 

Tell me about it, I put BBC 1 on the other day, not thinking I put the normal channel on, I thought something was wrong with the TV. Can't not watch stuff in HD now if it's available.

[Mr Skrunts]

HD makes things so much more clear, SD looks fuzzy!

Super HiVis is next though 

So, how much will sky charge people for that? and when is it due?

bad enough that we have to pay £120 extra a year just to watch HD tv now that is scattered with non HD programs and stuff that was never recorded in HD anyway.

[tunnie]

HD makes things so much more clear, SD looks fuzzy!

Super HiVis is next though 

So, how much will sky charge people for that? and when is it due?

bad enough that we have to pay £120 extra a year just to watch HD tv now that is scattered with non HD programs and stuff that was never recorded in HD anyway.

How long is a piece of string? Its years off at best, if not a decade. Its quite impressive, but we just lack bandwidth to broadcast it in the UK.

To give you an idea, the first HD camera was created back in the 1940's, with its first broadcast (for the Olympics) in 1984. Its taken some time for HD to reach households.

Should be a bit quicker than that for UltraHD, but every home is going to need a fibre connection 

[Mr Skrunts]

I knew there was something in the pipe line, did a search on what tunnie posted and the info came back as 8K TV, but there is also 4K TV, all sounds exspensive. 

Off to have a nosey round, was just about to by a 55/60 inch LED but got annother Omega instead, so might wait a while longer on the TV and see what pans out.

[Mr Skrunts]

HD makes things so much more clear, SD looks fuzzy!

Super HiVis is next though 

So, how much will sky charge people for that? and when is it due?

bad enough that we have to pay £120 extra a year just to watch HD tv now that is scattered with non HD programs and stuff that was never recorded in HD anyway.

How long is a piece of string? Its years off at best, if not a decade. Its quite impressive, but we just lack bandwidth to broadcast it in the UK.

To give you an idea, the first HD camera was created back in the 1940's, with its first broadcast (for the Olympics) in 1984. Its taken some time for HD to reach households.

Should be a bit quicker than that for UltraHD, but every home is going to need a fibre connection 

As in airwaves or interenet?

[tunnie]

Nice little write up here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2012/07/super_hi_vision_ultra_hd.html

I saw the test footage from the London 2012 Olympics, stunning stuff.

Can't see airways having enough capacity

HD & Olympics pushed most broadcasters to the limit, Sky pulled a lot of Box office content to make room!