Thread: NTL should switch to a digital only service!
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Old 25-12-2004, 02:31   #62
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Re: NTL should switch to a digital only service!
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Originally Posted by spiderplant
ntl don't re-encode anything. A few premium channels (Sky One, Sky Movies, Disney and a few others) are encoded by ntl from uncompressed video. This is done to give a higher bitrate than is available off satellite.
The rest of the channels are taken directly from DTT or satellite.
What do you mean by "taken" directly from DTT or satellite?

I was under the impression by the word "taking" that they got the compressed satellite stream or DTT stream, fed it through their encoders and then re-broadcast it onto their platform?

How do they do it then? Is it fed "directly" onto the platform then, without any tinkering about or re-encoding?
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