In reply to a post by Andrue:

No. They used film which has an even higher resolution. Quite a lot of film based media has been resampled in HD now. Consequently you can see a lot of Columbo episodes in HD. Even some Doctor Who. Basically anything recorded on film can now be resampled in HD to get an improved picture.

Even The Italian Job from 1969 is available in BluRay:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Italian-Job-40th-Anniversary...

I believe this was originally paid by Sky to be restored and converted to HD as it was a Sky Movies HD opening film back in 2006 / 2007 when HD launched. Subsequently its been released on BluRay.

The agenda of a talking shop is not going to generate much heat or light worth worrying about two years later IMHO.

Two years ago we were in the citys. Today we are moving on from the market towns. Two years time we will be well into the villages.

Edited by deleted (Fri 07-Mar-14 21:42:53)

It's one of several films Sky paid for the restoration and remastering. Zulu was another one IIRC.

No attempt to generate light or heat, merely noting how expectations have changed in a couple of years. One of the things that hasn't changed is expectations regarding coverage.

Oddly we're still in the cities in some cases; in my own immediate locale Leeds Basinghall and Wakefield are examples, and the cabinets serving 3 of my 4 previous addresses in London are all still awaiting deployment despite being on the rollout for one reason or another, one of those addresses being in the first phase of the initial 29 exchanges announced in 2009.

Regardless coverage is quite irrelevant as it's proceeding according to plan. The key points I was noting were the much lower level of FTTP, that vectoring is still on the drawing board, and that the expectations of required bandwidth per household have changed dramatically.

I'm sure BT would much rather the shortfalls in coverage/speed weren't highlighted as there may be some explaining to do when all is said and done and the bduk commitment proves to be especially difficult in practice.

Sadly just like all digital transmission mediums. Technology advancements fuel greed not necessarily blanket improvement of service.
SD satellite can be such low bitrate that analogue terrestrial would be more enjoyable.
Don't start me on DAB, FM sounds like studio quality over the nasty bitrates used on DAB, although in fairness it was a premature deployment, dab+ is the way to go but not backwards compatible.

yeah how better would the SD channels be if

(a) HD channels had no price premium on sattelite services.
(b) HD tv's were free.
(c) and more bandwidth available due to not having the 100s of trash channels. I watched a channel showing some star trek yesterday and was roughly 50/50 on the adverts and the programme, it was literally 5 minutes of star trek followed by 5 mins of adverts. This is of course a reason why scheduled tv is on the way out.

Edited by Chrysalis (Sat 08-Mar-14 23:39:49)