Once upon a time, Jay Ashworth <j...@baylink.com> said: > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Chris Adams" <cmad...@hiwaay.net> > > The top profile for Blu-Ray is 36 megabits per second, and that is > > not used on most titles. Over-the-air HDTV is 19 megabits or less. > > Cable HD channels are often only 12-15 megabits per second. > > Chris glances off, but doesn't quite say, that cable providers are prone > to *reencode* OTA HDTV, leaving cable subscribers with a worse -- sometimes > a *substantially* worse -- picture than they'd get from an OTA antenna.
Well, the OTA providers are doing it to the network feeds first, so I don't see focusing on the cable providers doing it to the OTA providers as the sole source of quality issues. The OTA providers also reencode to add bugs, weather/breaking news crawls, etc., and they don't always do a good job of that before feeding the signal to the statmuxer. -- Chris Adams <cmad...@hiwaay.net> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
