[bayards]

and High Chapparal. Well they were filmed so should look good on new HD station Anixe HD.

This station is waiting for it's license and is due on air May. It is on Astra 19.2 (or will be):

Satellit: ASTRA 1H
Transponder: 1.119
Polarisation: horizontal
Downlinkfrequenz: 12.721,75 MHz
Modulation: DVB-S2, 8PSK
Symbolrate: 22,0MSymb/s
FEC: 2/3
Position: 19,2° Ost

Checked but empty transponder. Mind you that information was only posted on their website today (7th).

www.anixehd.com

H

[Starburst]

Yep given they were probably shot on film but the final results may not be impressive due to noise/grain on the print and the overall quality due to the age and how it was stored.

Just as with the early DVD transfers the HD revolution may not really hit the mark until the market is big enough to support the cleaning up and remastering of older stock.

[bayards]

Hi Starburst - yes the site mentions they were 35mm film stock, They also say they hope to add other stuff on Friday nights - anyone for The Avengers, Dept S - infact the current early evening crop of ITV4 shows!

H

[Bada Bing]

What hardware is required to receive and decode this in order to output this to an HD display?

[bayards]

You'll need a sat dish pointing to 19.2 East (the sat which used to house Sky analogue). You can do this with either a motorized dish or multi LNB dish (a dish which can house more than one LNB on it on a bracket/arm). Sky digital now uses Astra sat at 28.2 East.

The satbox needs to be one of the new MPEG4 HD sorts (Pace or my Humax PRHD1000 model) - also picks up standard sat stuff. You'll then have access to the world of sat and HD.

I can get to about 15 sats - giving me over 1000 channels from Arabic to X-filth!

H

[Andy3]

All great programmes, but they were made in 4:3. If this channel is 16:9, will they blow the images up to fill the frame (yeeeuuch!) or will they show them as God intended?

[Starburst]

Originally Posted by Andy3

All great programmes, but they were made in 4:3. If this channel is 16:9, will they blow the images up to fill the frame (yeeeuuch!) or will they show them as God intended?

I would expect a 4:3 source would retain it's ratio and be broadcast as such and then sent to the display pillarboxed unless the viewer decided otherwise.
However wouldn't a 35mm frame allow some content to be formatted for 16:9 without the need to chop off picture from the top and bottom or is that too simplistic for the sort of content (television) compared to say a theatrical release which would have been filmed widescreen safe and could tolerate some reformating?