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Originally Posted by spiderplant
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.
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Thanks for the info.
Surely if they could broadcast it previously in 5.1, they should be able to do it now. Why would it take so much extra work? It was on other channels besides Sky Premier BTW.
We're told that one of the great things about cable is the bandwidth, and how much would a 5.1 audio stream add to the bandwidth anyway?
The point is Sky offer 5.1, so we are getting an inferior service
at a greater cost. Sky movies on Sky is £16; it's 19.50 on Virgin. I take Sky movies 2 pack, which is £8 with Sky and £13.50 with Virgin.
http://www.sky.com/shop/tv/movies/
http://allyours.virginmedia.com/html...-channels.html
To say they can't put 5.1 on SD movies, for whatever reason, is, in my view, bit of a cop out and pretty bad to be charging more than Sky for an inferior service.