Help: Whenever i watch moving sport especially football I experience much poorer picture quality with what i call 'ghosting', do I need HDTV?
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Whenever i watch moving sport especially football I experience much poorer picture quality with what i call 'ghosting', do I need HDTV?


Whenever i watch moving sport especially football I experience

What you are seeing is one of the two problems that are well know about the "MPEG-2" system that is used to encode digital TV.

Because of the way the system works, horizontal movement across a crowd requires a disproportionate large amount of data to encode.

Because the bandwidth on Freeview is so limited, and as most broadcasters have decided to have more channels rather than better quality pictures, on most channels the bandwidth is so limited that the effect you see, a blurry mass of blocks is visible.

The sceptical will say that this is simply an excuse to sell you HDTV equipment and channel packages.

The other problem you will see is when strobe effects are used - this will often look like very large black and white boxes.

If these effects trouble you, do not go out and buy yourself a massive TV as they will be simply much clearer to you.



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