SRC & CBC now in 720P

[InMontreal]

When regional SRC/CBC stations went digital, their picture quality was reduced to 720P, except for Montreal and Toronto.

Since yesterday night, both SRC & CBC Montreal OTA unfortunately went 720P too, but kept the 1080i ratio on Vidéotron.

Apparently, this spares them some bandwidth that will be used for ATSC/M so you can watch SRC/CBC with a mobile.

Idiots. There was a problem with shutting down CBC retransmitter in Quebec City, Sherbrooke, Trois-Rivières, Saguenay, and shutting down SRC retransmitters in Calgary and a few other places and they still managed to keep analog service in those areas. When asked about multiplexing an SD feed of CBC/SRC within the digital SRC/CBC feed, they said they won't do it because it will affect the main channel's picture quality. Next thing you know, they reduce picture quality to 720P. What the hell...

[ED001]

ABC and FOX transmit in 720p in the US because sports looks better in that format compared to 1080i ie) the interlacing from 1080i causes the action to be fuzzy compared to 720p. Maybe that's another reason why CBC decided to switch to 720p?

And in any event, if CBC broadcasts its signal in 720p at 19 mBits/s, there's no room for a digital subchannel. They have to reduce the bitrate to 15 mBits/s before they can start to cram SRC on there.

[dorthensensens]

ABC and FOX transmit in 720p in the US because sports looks better in that format compared to 1080i ie) the interlacing from 1080i causes the action to be fuzzy compared to 720p. Maybe that's another reason why CBC decided to switch to 720p?

And in any event, if CBC broadcasts its signal in 720p at 19 mBits/s, there's no room for a digital subchannel. They have to reduce the bitrate to 15 mBits/s before they can start to cram SRC on there.

1080i/60 is de-interlaced to 1080p/30 and my opinion 720p/60 is less desirable than a 1080p/30 picture.

[NakedGord]

Apparently, this spares them some bandwidth that will be used for ATSC/M so you can watch SRC/CBC with a mobile

If they're putting this out unencrypted so devices with mobile tuners can receive them for free I'm actually supportive of this since CTV is selling a mobile sub to CTV/CTV2 and some other channels for $5 for 5GBs as well as creating a cable TV style tier service where you can buy HBO for another $5/5 GBs but only if you get the basic package first.

[InMontreal]

If they're putting this out unencrypted so devices with mobile tuners can receive them for free I'm actually supportive of this since CTV is selling a mobile sub to CTV/CTV2 and some other channels for $5 for 5GBs as well as creating a cable TV style tier service where you can buy HBO for another $5/5 GBs but only if you get the basic package first.

If your cellphone or handheld is equiped with a ATSC-M/H tuner, I don't see the point in paying Bhell to access material you can get for free OTA.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATSC-M/H