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spiderplant · 08-08-2010, 12:22

The channels are bundled together into fixed-bandwidth multiplexes. The set of channels in each multiplex is carefully calculated to fit into the bandwidth available If the 5.1 streams were simply added to the channels, the bandwidth of the multiplex would be exceeded, and picture quality would suffer. So instead some channels would have to be moved to other multiplexes. This needs to be configured and tested in each of the 54 headends. A lot of work.

No-one has said it can't be done. It may be in the future, but at the moment things like adding new channels, and TiVo, are higher priority.

08-08-2010, 12:22	#10
spiderplant cf.mega poster Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 9,058	Re: Sky movies in 5.1? The channels are bundled together into fixed-bandwidth multiplexes. The set of channels in each multiplex is carefully calculated to fit into the bandwidth available If the 5.1 streams were simply added to the channels, the bandwidth of the multiplex would be exceeded, and picture quality would suffer. So instead some channels would have to be moved to other multiplexes. This needs to be configured and tested in each of the 54 headends. A lot of work. No-one has said it can't be done. It may be in the future, but at the moment things like adding new channels, and TiVo, are higher priority.