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  • 2 months later...

Interesting you say that. I was watching the players championship golf tonight on 507 and on my 110 inch screen the blockiness and artifacts were quite noticeable. Had to be less than 8 mbps for sure.

Does anyone have the facility to test all the sports channels again like previously in this thread?

It has been a while since it was last done. I suspect the bitrates have dropped even more sadly.

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  • 7 months later...

Hi all,

 

Are these bitrates on cable as well? Or just satellite? 

 

Also anyone here have a list of resolution of the HD channels? Ie 720P, 1080i, 1080P(if this even exists). I have a Samsung 75” 4ktv and with the iq3 set to auto it outputs as 1080P.

 

Thanks,

K.

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1 hour ago, k3nnis888 said:

Hi all,

 

Are these bitrates on cable as well? Or just satellite? 

 

Also anyone here have a list of resolution of the HD channels? Ie 720P, 1080i, 1080P(if this even exists). I have a Samsung 75” 4ktv and with the iq3 set to auto it outputs as 1080P.

 

Thanks,

K.

Go into the HD picture settings part of the Foxtel Setup Menu and change output from "Auto" to "Passthrough"

This allows all channels to display in their original resolution.......

......eg Channel 9 SD should show as 576i whilst the 2 ESPN channels will show as 720P 

 

Just use your TV's remote to check display resolution info.

 

BTW.......Highest resolution Foxtel currently offer is 1080i.........no 1080p

 

FWIW...........I just leave my IQ2HD box set to 1080i.

 

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Auto will upscale the SD channels to 1080i

Another issue with passthrough is that you have to wait for different resolutions to lock in when you are channel surfing.

 

I would suggest leaving on Auto or 1080i/1080p

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3 hours ago, k3nnis888 said:

Thanks :) Would you know which channels are 720P and which are 1080i?

All Foxtel HD channels are 1080i except for ESPN and ESPN2 which are 720p

All FTA HD channels (via Foxtel) are now 1080i..........(I know that ABC used to be 720p)

All SD channels are 576i........(YUK!!!!)

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3 minutes ago, JohnL said:

All Foxtel HD channels are 1080i except for ESPN and ESPN2 which are 720p

All FTA HD channels (via Foxtel) are now 1080i..........(I know that ABC used to be 720p)

All SD channels are 576i........(YUK!!!!)

 

You can get FTA HD on Foxtel?

 

Nothing shows on my hd foxtel list. Only fta is the shitty worse than sd on foxtel.

 

  That said, FTA HD looks great on 90 and 70.   13 never looks as good.

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2 hours ago, metal beat said:

 

You can get FTA HD on Foxtel?

 

Nothing shows on my hd foxtel list. Only fta is the shitty worse than sd on foxtel.

 

  That said, FTA HD looks great on 90 and 70.   13 never looks as good.

Only via Cable.........not Satellite.

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On 05/01/2018 at 11:22 AM, JohnL said:

All Foxtel HD channels are 1080i except for ESPN and ESPN2 which are 720p

All FTA HD channels (via Foxtel) are now 1080i..........(I know that ABC used to be 720p)

All SD channels are 576i........(YUK!!!!)

Thanks. Will the Foxtel FTA HD channels be as good as normal antenna FTA HD channels?

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5 hours ago, k3nnis888 said:

Thanks. Will the Foxtel FTA HD channels be as good as normal antenna FTA HD channels?

IME........Yes

May depend on quality of FTA HD tuner

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I'm not sure if Foxtel still offer satellite installation rather than using the NBN/ADSL but their bitrates via sat dish are much higher, therefore should look a lot better on larger screens/projectors

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Exactly what I was thinking as soon as they announced Fox Cricket. No doubt they will just add another HD channel and reduce the bitrate even more :-=(

I wonder what bitrate the new Fox Cricket 4K channel will run at....

 

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