In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

If they upped the bit rate of a SD feed to be the same as a HD feed even without increasing the resolution most people would be fooled into saying they are looking at a HD picture.

If you ever get the chance to work in a broadcast centre and see the raw footage from an SD broadcast quality camera, its pretty amazing how good it looks. There are people who watch playout quality and report when things are 'bad' for a lot of broadcasters.

I've noticed virgin media compress SD more than freeview or Sky on most channels. Its very obvious on the larger TVs.

In reply to a post by Oldjim:

Just seen this report from a member who is on 40/20
http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest/results.html...

Faster than a real 40/10 sync person, who maxes out the speed testers at 38 Mbps.

That is correct
Although they are on 40/20 the BT IP profile is set for the actual sync speed which is much higher than 40Mbps
As reported earlier we don't actually know what the Plusnet profile is set at but it may be just above 40Mbps

My parents had cancel the order 40/20 to adjusted to have unlimited fibre extra instead (80/20) and have £10.00 off for the first six months because their cabinet is estimated of 74 down and 19 up. Plusnet told them the order won't be cancelled because the engineer is still coming on the 10th July as Plusnet just changing at their side from 40/20 to 80/20 on the day of fibre installation. Plusnet told my parents that BT Engineer is only install fibre not the speed.

In reply to a post by adslmax:

My parents had cancel the order 40/20 to adjusted to have unlimited fibre extra instead (80/20)

Probably best if you use CAT5 rather than homeplugs or wireless then?

I already brought one for my parents a CAT5 ethernet cable from router to their main pc upstair.

In reply to a post by adslmax:

I already brought one for my parents a CAT5 ethernet cable from router to their main pc upstair.

That's good - guess you will turn the wireless off on the router and disable the wireless adaptor (if applicable) on the Win8 machine?

No, the wifi remain secured because my parents still using tablet and smart mobile phones and also their grand daughter sometimes watching Apple TV via Netflix UK.

In reply to a post by adslmax:

No, the wifi remain secured because my parents still using tablet and smart mobile phones and also their grand daughter sometimes watching Apple TV via Netflix UK.

Ah! Now I understand why you are connecting the router to the Win8 machine over ethernet to a different room in the house - didn't want to question it before because I knew you probably had a good reason to do it that way

indeed its mainly the bitrate and encoding.

when SD was the norm in 80s and 90s people werent saying it all sucked then. Uncompressed analogue signals etc.

When sky rolled out HD they reduced the bitrate of their SD channels.

Another factor is LCD is not that good at showing non native resolutions so things wont look right for that reason, but thats down tot the monitor tech rather than the resolution itself. So e.g. 720p will look better on a 720ptv than a 1080p tv.

It wouldnt surprise me if 4k ever gets transmitted over sky that they then decrease the bitrate of normal hd feeds to make the 4k look better.