My eyes! They're burning!
Just looked at MMR (MuchMoreRetro) for a few minutes. They were playing George Michael's Freedom clip. Oh the memories. But oddly enough, my memory did not remember all these blocks… Oh yes, because of the atmosphere of the music video, it's all pastels, darks, hushed tones, gradients, and a very nice place to get aberrant compression artefacts.
The absolute worst part was in the middle of the video, there's a part where about 2-3 times per second, there is a black, quick fade in to a scene and quick fade out to black… all different scenes. There were not only compressed badly, they were horribly compressed! 6 feet from my standard non-high-def television set, very regular, and (start the geek zone) I could clearly see the 8×8 Mpeg blocks. Very very clearly see them. That's on a QAM with an average amount of channels (12), on a channel with a (low average) 2.6Mbps bandwidth alloted to video signal. (end the geek zone)
Now… I already told people I was tired of getting cheapo standard definition TV, that a few years ago, I would record Star Trek shows on a VHS cassette at EP, and I could still see the compression refresh scan every second or so. Now that's becoming just plain annoying and laughing in our face.
If you want me to buy that super HD television, start by doing your proofs on the normal SD television. No it's not normal I have such bad signal. And yes I am starting to look for options because frankly, it's horrible.
Please, start by capping the video bitrates to 3.5Mbps as the lowest possible amount for any given channel, and then we'll be able to talk about these new services you want to reserve your bandwidth for, like that 100Mbps Internet you're talking about.
