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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter
change the remaining 64-QAM multiplexes to 256-QAM. VM didn't change certain ones over, I don't know why, maybe there's some technical reason?? If SP sees this maybe he could explain why these haven't yet been changed over
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Some of the oldest Pace boxes have a restriction that their software has to be carried on 64-QAM. Those boxes will all be gone within a few weeks.
And a minor benefit of 64-QAM for software delivery is it is a bit more tolerant of network noise, so we may as well stick with it until the bandwidth is needed for something else.
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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter
if SP sees this, maybe he may be able to explain why VM has different transport streams for regional and national channels.
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All transport streams are carried on a national network. The regional headends select the ones they need, and ignore the others. So they pick up all the national ones, plus whichever regional ones they need to serve their local users.
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Originally Posted by RichardCoulter
VM do intend to make the remaining ITV HD channels MPEG4, but when and why they didn't do them at the same time as the rest of the HD channels is unknown.
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It's because they are acquired through some non-standard equipment, which is a consequence of the way ITV's distribution network works. It'll get sorted one day.