Given ITV's 2008 Yearly Accounts I would like to pass on my reasons for not watching ITV Sport (unless it is a prime event and available on HD). The picture quality generally available on Standard Definintion Digital TV (Sky, FreeView, FreeSat) is very poor with digital artifacts that seem to be due to insufficent bandwidth for the compression ...

Has anybody noticed how the quality of ITV footbal braodcasts video is (also Setanta's video) is not up to the same standard as Sky or BBC's standard definition? On the long shot of the pitch, it seems to me that the digitisation of the players is particularly poor, each player being surrounded by a ''ghost-like'' image - the phenomenon is ...