Mike Raiford wrote:
> Invisible wrote:
> 
>> But now I'm watching TV on a big LCD TV, suddenly there seems to be 
>> MPEG artifacts all over the place! o_O
> 
> My projection TV is like that. Less obvious on the HD channels, the 
> cable system here generally compresses the "less glamorous" channels to 
> death. It's pretty obvious. The HD channels are usually very sharp and 
> crisp, only showing MPEG blocking during sections where the picture 
> changes rapidly.

I noticed several adverts with stuff happening underwater had seriously 
blocky bubble clouds...

I also watched Ice Age II. Several of the "blue wash" backgrounds were 
noticably blocky. (By which I mean there were 8x8 blocks of solid colour 
instead of a gradient.) For some reason all codecs known to man destroy 
the blue channel...

I hadn't realised that this could very by channel. I assumed there was 
just a standard that says "Digital TV = MPEG2 at X Mbit/sec". I'll have 
to investigate. Hmm, I wonder what a DVD looks like?

By the way... Watching the snooker, I could actually see the pattern of 
the felt on the table (and the depth of field of the camera)!

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