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Originally Posted by Hugh
I have a 4K Smart TV, and 350Mb BB, and it wasn’t terrible quality, but it seemed less than HD, and there were some noticeable stutters - nowhere near the same quality as watching it on BBC or ITV HD channels.
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HD quality should be the minimum standard - if this is really the future (OB) then I for one consider it a backward step or 3
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Originally Posted by Chris
The problem with streaming live sports is that you want it to be as near real time as possible, which seriously limits the opportunities for buffering the stream. For it to work well you need a ton of bandwidth and it needs to be absolutely rock-stable. Because this is rarely guaranteed at the end user’s set up the broadcasters end up reducing the quality, compressing it to death and just hoping that the equipment being used to view it is up to the task of repairing the damage they’ve done. Often, it isn’t.
Bluntly, the best way of getting these sorts of things from the venue to the viewer is via a high bandwidth broadcast stream that doesn’t have to hop all over the internet and isn’t contending for bandwidth with everything else in the world. So, oh I don’t know, maybe a freaking great big transmitter mast. Or even an orbiting satellite.
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It seems you may be suggesting a linear channel approach - at least until the infrastructure is up to it?
Amazon Prime please take note!