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Originally Posted by Richardr
That is not true.
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Yes it is, nor is it a downside as you seam to be making out.
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Originally Posted by Richardr
For most of the Sky owned channels
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No, "Most of the sky owned channels" are turned around at MPEG level from other platforms. Only sky one and the sky premium channels get the treatment you describe.
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Originally Posted by Richardr
ntl receive the channels via a direct link from Sky, and encode them themselves.
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But as the sky premium channels are received by ntl in a totaly uncompressed format (270Mbits/second SDI video), and are then encoded at a bitrate that is higher than the other channels, you achally get a better (bitrate) picture on the sky premium channels on NTL, than you would do with sky.
For more infomation, read this more detailed explination:
http://forum.digitalspy.co.uk/board/...19&postcount=5
-Chris