Thread: Hd Bandwidth ?
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Old 07-05-2008, 13:32   #11
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Re: Hd Bandwidth ?

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Originally Posted by SMHarman View Post
I was also looking at it vis a vis the 4 times the data so compared to an SD channel of 3Mb/s that would be 12Mb/s and they have a spare 6 Mb/s capacity there.

Those numbers are huge. That means I am getting 40*(say mid point of 15) Mb/s of HD content pushed down my cable here. Thats over 600+Mb/s. Then the 100s of SD channels also!
12Mb/s HD on MPEG2 would not be particularly good. H.264 HD is reasonable at those rates, but would still demand more for difficult scenes.
Virgin had at least 27 streams of over 38Mb/s each over 3 years ago so the numbers are feasible.
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