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spiderplant · 07-08-2010, 18:41

It was unintentional when SkyPrem and Prem+1 carried 5.1 in ex-TW regions. There was no bandwidth allocated for the 5.1 stream, and could have affected picture quality. Remember most SD boxes can't handle 5.1, so the MPEG audio needs to be broadcast too.

It would be considerable engineering work to add the 5.1 streams to the SD Sky channels. It can be done, but right now there are higher priority things to do.

07-08-2010, 18:41	#8
spiderplant cf.mega poster Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 9,058	Re: Sky movies in 5.1? It was unintentional when SkyPrem and Prem+1 carried 5.1 in ex-TW regions. There was no bandwidth allocated for the 5.1 stream, and could have affected picture quality. Remember most SD boxes can't handle 5.1, so the MPEG audio needs to be broadcast too. It would be considerable engineering work to add the 5.1 streams to the SD Sky channels. It can be done, but right now there are higher priority things to do.