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liquidnumb
8th March 2003, 00:03
Does anyone know what hte bit rate of the mpeg2 streams are that are being sent for the HD channels on the Dish Network sats, or Direct TV?
goemon
9th March 2003, 09:11
based on what i've seen of the crappy DBS services like directv and dishnetwork, i'd have to say about 3mbps-4mbps... (this is not counting their HDTV services, which i have not seen)
trbarry
9th March 2003, 16:38
A lot of people seem to think they average around 14 mbps.

- Tom
goemon
24th March 2003, 10:31
i did some digging around. directv uses 3mbps and 7.5mbps depending on the channel content (eg talk shows or sports). this is of course not counting the HDTV channels.

this does go a long way to explaining why directv looks so crappy.
Atamido
25th March 2003, 00:24
Your average DVD uses around 3.5mbps for video, and maybe 7mbps for video on a superbit DVD. I don't believe the audio would add that much on.
goemon
25th March 2003, 01:46
thats 3mbps max for the channel, not average...

and boy does it look crappy. but i guess joe public doesnt really care about quality, he just wants more channels.
midiguy
3rd April 2003, 07:57
DVD only uysesa n average of 3.5 mbps for video?? are you sure about that? I always thought it was signigficantly higher than that..
tedkunich
10th April 2003, 00:44
goemon:

and boy does it look crappy. but i guess joe public doesnt really care about quality, he just wants more channels.

And what would you be comparing that to??? Cable???? DTV is far far superior to any broadcast or cable delivery infrastructure in place at the moment.


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rmatei
20th April 2003, 10:36
Originally posted by tedkunich
And what would you be comparing that to??? Cable???? DTV is far far superior to any broadcast or cable delivery infrastructure in place at the moment.

It's not "far" superior, there are some digital cable providers with similar quality. But I guess the fair standard for comparison is over-the-air DTV. An SD mpeg-2 stream, with a good bandwidth, can match and sometimes even outshine DVD.
tedkunich
29th April 2003, 07:47
You are obviously not a ATT/Comcast cable customer ;) Horrid picture, some channels were OK, most were unwatchable.... Dropped them like a bad habit...

As to broadcast TV, would not know... I'm in a RF shadow - can't get here from there... it is either cable or sat...