I’ve just tuned in to 7flix Townsville for the first time.
The picture is not too bad, it’s watchable, but it’s definitely much worse quality than 7 Digital/7Two/RACING.COM.
I notice when there’s a lot of motion on the screen the picture just becomes a big blur.
It’s the audio that’s bothering me, it sounds bloody terrible. It’s still got that echo/tunnel noise that I complained about when the promo loop was on. The audio here is terrible compared to 7 Digital/7Two/RACING.COM.
I can understand the poor picture quality in 7QLD areas but not for the metro stations. The station has a bit rate allocation just below 7TWO but because it is using MPEG4 it should be able to give a picture quality higher than the main channel but so far it is isn’t. I wonder if it is just Brisbane and the link to here.
Right at the moment 7Flix has a bit rate of 3.7Mbps and 7TWO is also 3.7. Because 7Flix is MPEG 4 it should look the better of the two but it looks a lot worse. Nothing to do with 7Mate.
Prime has nothing to do with 7QLD
B. If you have successfully tuned in SBS Food and 9Life on 94 or 84 but still can’t find 9HD on 90 (80 in NBN and WIN areas) or 7flix on 76 or Ten HD on 13 you should now check your received channel list and look for channel 78 - RACING.COM. Select and view that channel if possible.
If you can view channel 78 but cannot see 76 or 90 or 13 you need to recheck the instructions for tuning your television and try again.
C. If 78 is not on the channel list or displays as a blank screen with sound only or listed as " audio only" or “ “no video” you will find that channels 7flix and 9HD and Ten HD are the same. This means that your television is not compatible with the type of broadcast signal that these three channels use.
7qld is played out of BCM along with the rest of the 7 stations. Bandwidth for links wouldn’t be an issue as the whole bouquet of channels they transmit is the same as always, just divvied up differently.
No idea why they would carve it up differently to a metro station, unless they don’t have stat muxing working?
Would’ve prefered it in HD though…
