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Is this with a satellite feed or Freeview? I have Sky (basically Freesat because I won't want to pay Sky any money thanks) and the quality is abysmal, even for

Is this with a satellite feed or Freeview? I have Sky (basically Freesat because I won't want to pay Sky any money thanks) and the quality is abysmal, even for video. The audio is compressed massively and LOUD all the time, and the video is blocky as can be, with snowy or rainy scenes being unintelligible. You can notice on some adverts that the small text at the bottom is completely unreadable.

petercooper 11y ago
No, DAB (for people overseas, DAB is a terrestrially transmitted digital audio service - imagine FM radio but digital). If I'm not in the car, I'll listen online instead (notably, BBC stations sound better streamed over 3G but this has big UX implications when driving). The quality on Sky used to be substantially better than DAB when I used it 10 years ago, but I don't know about it now. That said, I have Sky TV and the picture quality is variable. Most of the channels I watch are fine and all HD channels are very clear.
- 72deluxe 11y ago
  Informative, thank you. I am glad to know that Sky is decent quality on the HD channels. Strangely they believe that you spend your entire life watching TV and can't comprehend you doing anything else (like typing comments on HN at 9 in the evening.....) A chap at work listens to DAB over some big Questeds and the glitching and artefacting from Radio 2 (ugh I hate hearing that all day) is irritating (down to poor reception). Those Questeds sound great if proper audio is put through them though! It seems a waste to shove DAB Radio 2 and Jeremy Vine and his argument "show" through them.
  - petercooper 11y ago
    Sadly the only way you'll get a better experience from your coworker's DAB radio is to convince them to switch to Radio 3. It's the only DAB station in the UK with a 192kbps bitrate (although only 256kbps is considered to be better than FM under perfect conditions). (Well, technically, DAB+ would make things a ton better as it uses AAC instead, but progress is moving forward very slowly in rolling it out..)

petercooper 11y ago

No, DAB (for people overseas, DAB is a terrestrially transmitted digital audio service - imagine FM radio but digital). If I'm not in the car, I'll listen online instead (notably, BBC stations sound better streamed over 3G but this has big UX implications when driving). The quality on Sky used to be substantially better than DAB when I used it 10 years ago, but I don't know about it now. That said, I have Sky TV and the picture quality is variable. Most of the channels I watch are fine and all HD channels are very clear.

72deluxe 11y ago
Informative, thank you. I am glad to know that Sky is decent quality on the HD channels. Strangely they believe that you spend your entire life watching TV and can't comprehend you doing anything else (like typing comments on HN at 9 in the evening.....) A chap at work listens to DAB over some big Questeds and the glitching and artefacting from Radio 2 (ugh I hate hearing that all day) is irritating (down to poor reception). Those Questeds sound great if proper audio is put through them though! It seems a waste to shove DAB Radio 2 and Jeremy Vine and his argument "show" through them.
- petercooper 11y ago
  Sadly the only way you'll get a better experience from your coworker's DAB radio is to convince them to switch to Radio 3. It's the only DAB station in the UK with a 192kbps bitrate (although only 256kbps is considered to be better than FM under perfect conditions). (Well, technically, DAB+ would make things a ton better as it uses AAC instead, but progress is moving forward very slowly in rolling it out..)