Originally Posted by Hurlley:
“I thought freesat had more room to works with and it has much higher quality broadcasting?”
Generally that is correct but it depends entirely on the broadcaster and how much space on a satellite they are prepared to pay for, the potential is there but if a broadcaster is not prepared to pay for the capacity then the quality will not be there. Freesat is just an epg they apart from the epg broacast nothing.
There are hundreds of channels on satellite many with extremely poor pictures simply because of the broadcasters policy of quantity over quality.
There is a new satellite recently launched (Astra 1N). Channel 5 have paid for 1 transponder (Mux in Freeview terms) and have compressed too many channels onto the same frequency, as a result the picture quality is unusually much inferior to the terrestrial Freeview pictures.
This is entirely down to the broadcaster (and Channel 5 are by far the most incompetent of the so called PSB broadcasters) and nothing at all to do with Freesat. The picture quality is the same on Sky - It would be it's the same transmission
They can't even get series recording right.
It's generally thought the BBC restrict the picture quality on Satellite so as not disadvantage Freeview-HD picture quality.