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Originally Posted by Darwish
Am I reading the bitrates incorrectly or does the move to MPEG4 look a little underwhelming?
From digitalbitrates, Virgin MPEG2 is showing an average of 16.6Mbps for BBC One HD, Virgin MPEG4 is 11.9Mbps and Freeview MPEG4 is 4.7Mbps.
Would we expect Virgin's MPEG4 to be at a lower bitrate?
Unscientifically recordings HD recordings on a V6 seem to eat up less % of disk space now but it's not a very granular measurement.
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Until Virgin come up with other uses for the space it is likely they will use high bitrate MPEG4. When they squeeze in more channels, or reallocate it for broadband, we will see lower bitrates.