As you may all know now, one of my concerns with these providers is the quality of the picture and sound of the content these providers are delivering.<br /><br />I must admit, that I am quite excited out that TV+ will be delivering it’s content on direct fibre. This would mean that the picture should be far less compressed, much sharper and the audio quality should be close to perfect. So Pink+ and BK should have as good a quality as BNTV is on PAS8 (TV+).<br /><br />Well, looks like TV+ is getting their act together! <br />@ Satfreak – Any ETA on the delivery of the better quality content? Yes I know that it’s better to have any quality Pink than no Pink at all, <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="images/icons/default/wink.gif" /> but… I want more! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="images/icons/default/grin.gif" /> <br /><br />Vlad...

yeah i want quality too vlad, but how good is the quality of the channel to start with?

reuder,<br />well they do have studios, you know <br />I'm not sure what your referring to when you say "...to start with". Do you mean the uplink?<br />The signal quality is digital which means it does not inherit noise. The only thing that determines the quality of the broadcast is the amount of compression they use and if there is a transfer from platform to platform i.e. NTSC to PAL.<br /><br />Vlad...<br /> <br /> <small>[ 26. December 2004, 03:59 PM: Message edited by: Vlad ]</small>

yeah that's what i mean, e.g. the RTS signal was always shocking, the uplink quality was bad to start off with, and then ex tarbs used it. they couldn't do anything to improve it

But TARBS swapped platforms from NTSC (Never Twice the Same Color) to PAL. The uplink with pink and BN was fine but they lost heaps on the translation.<br />This is what TV Plus say will be fixed in the new year. I expect the picture, going over fibre to be close to perfect. Let's hope this comes soon! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/default/smile.gif" />

does the end provider e.g. tvplus get the signal direct from the actually content provider i.e. direct from their facilities to tvplus uplink station e.g. Pink etc, or do they get it off e.g. for european channels HOTBIRD 3 etc

It all depends. They could get all channels off satellite in Europe or have a direct connection through fibre to the channel and then broadcast it to the uplink sat from there.<br /><br />Eg:<br />For TV plus, it either gets picked up from intelsat Americas 5 then get beamed back up to pas8 from napa in USA or direct fibre to straight to Sydney then pas8<br />For UBI, hotbird sat to RR sat in Israel then gets beamed up to telstar 10 then signal get piked up in Pyrmont Sydney then get beamed back up to Optus b3<br />according to a little birdie <img border="0" title="" alt="[Wink]" src="images/icons/default/wink.gif" /> <img border="0" title="" alt="[Big Grin]" src="images/icons/default/grin.gif" />

hehe thanks vlad, for always answering my little questions

Also, what decoders will tvplus use?

The CA's will be a new version of IRDETO. As for the STU's, I don't have that info. Perhaps Satfreak could answer that... <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/default/smile.gif" /> <br /><br />Regrads,<br />Vlad