Thread: General Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2018)
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Old 08-02-2018, 14:42   #425
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2018)
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Originally Posted by virginruinedntl View Post
the resolution on freeview is 544x576i h264 at around 1.6Mbps for a wrestling show I recorded. I think football is around 1.9Mbps. Virgin media don't just broadcast the same feed, they take the raw uncompressed feeds then encode them themselves in whatever resolution and bitrates they wish so image quality wouldn't be a problem on virgin media.

If they launch a HD channel on freeview it wouldn't surprise me if they went HD-only as you already need Freeview HD to receive their dvb-t2 h264+he-aac sd channel so why pay for 2 freeview slots instead of 1.
I wasn't aware of this. Do VM do the same thing across all channels?
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