Re: Declining bitrate on Sky digital channels?

What about Sky Sports Extra, or is that on a different transponder?

"Stephen" <stephen@junkmail.sptv.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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> "Ed" <eabowden@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>> 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.
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> 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.
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