@nonnie1 wrote:
It's nothing to do with settings, tv make/model, it's common knowledge that sky bitrate on HD - and recently Ultra HD is pretty poor. In fact I'm have trouble telling the difference between the two, especially on live football!
@nonnie1 sorry you are wrong both the settings and model of TV can make a huge difference to picture quality. Bandwidth is a factor certainly but without considering the compression technology used is meaningless as compression has improved massively in the last 10 years. You can getva quart into a pint pot satellite transponder. 😀
The difference between HD and UHD is far less noticeable than between SD and HD The human eye has limitations on the detail it can resolve this page gives guidance on screen size and distance and you are sitting too far from your 55inch set to reliable see the extra detail in a UHD broadcast. Add-in that good TVs are pretty good at upscaling at your viewing distance then difference is pretty hard to distinguish. Get close and you will see the difference particularly in the crowd. It is why higher resolutions like 8K are only really important on bigger screens go up to 85 inchs and then the difference will be obvious.
Badly set up TVs can crush detail particularly when the camera pans - motion correction on many sets make this worse rather than better. Setting up your TV properly is sensible to maxmise the viewing experience.
My point is thst "common knowledge" often over simplifies complex subjects.
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