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Originally Posted by Stuart C
However, Cable has a higher bandwidth than Satellite, so is not so much of an advantage on Cable.
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Actually, the opposite is true. There is far more digital bandwidth available on satellite than on cable. On cable, a massive chunk of the spectrum is still taken up by analogue signals. That's how Sky are able to do things like Sky Movies multistart and 8 "red button" channels for the football.
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Having said all that, I would still prefer MPEG 4 as it gives NTL more room for expansion.
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Agreed. As it is, NTL are probably now going to be stuck with MPEG2 forever. If they don't start closing down some analogue channels, this could lead to a major squeeze on bandwidth once the number of HD channels increases*.