{"id":1339,"date":"2003-10-28T13:43:03","date_gmt":"2003-10-28T02:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=1339"},"modified":"2010-03-14T21:24:07","modified_gmt":"2010-03-14T10:24:07","slug":"abc-and-sbs-do-hd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=1339","title":{"rendered":"ABC and SBS do HD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the midst of doing all those display reviews, I borrowed a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dg-tec.com.au\/index2.html\">DGTEC DG-5000i<\/a> set top box. As I suspected, both ABC and SBS are now broadcasting their 20 hours per week of high definition digital. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.widescreentv.info\/\">According to the Digital Broadcasting Association<\/a>, ABC&#8217;s HD content is upconverted from standard definition to 1080i, and SBS&#8217; from SD to 576p. I object to this. SD carried in HD format is still SD. It&#8217;s like saying that an MP3 file is PCM because your player converts it to PCM before sending it to a home theatre receiver. Upconverting cannot restore that which was not captured in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>I rang up ABC about their offerings because I noticed on Sunday night its religious show <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/compass\/\">Compass<\/a> seemed to of noticably higher quality on the HD channel than on the SD channel. They couldn&#8217;t say about Compass, but they identified a number of shows that they say are full HD: MDA, 4 Corners, Fat Cow Hotel and Dimensions. I&#8217;ll try to compare these as they come up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the midst of doing all those display reviews, I borrowed a DGTEC DG-5000i set top box. As I suspected, both ABC and SBS are now broadcasting their 20 hours per week of high definition digital. According to the Digital &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=1339\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1340,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions\/1340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}