Re: Declining bitrate on Sky digital channels?

On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 17:05:08 -0000, "Stephen"
<stephen@junkmail.sptv.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>"Ed" <eabowden@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>news:1136911052.158890.158370@f14g2000cwb.googleg roups.com...
>> Is it me or are some of the channels getting poorer and poorer quality?
>> Channels like VH1 show serious digital artefacts such as pixellation
>> and blocking, whereas Skysports never seems to show anything other than
>> the clearest picture.
>
>MTV have all 9 channels, MTV, VH1, MTV Hits, MTV Base, MTV Dance, MTV2, VH2,
>VH1 Classic, and TMF on one transponder, Transponder 10, 11.895 GHz
>Vertical.
>
>Sky Sports has only 5 channels on it's transponder, Sky Sports 1, Sky Sports
>2, Sky Sports 3, Cartoon Network +1hour, and FX, on Transponder 21, 12.110
>GHz Horizontal, so they can use about twice the bitrate of the MTV channels.
>
and the bitrates are shrinking for Sky's current channels because Sky
are cramming on more and more gambling channels, apparently...

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