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Originally Posted by jtwn
The key word being like. I was watching a performance at the grammys and the bitrate for the most part was in single figures. Black levels were pretty high but the difference between that and other broadcasters (Euro1080i) / demos was glaringly obvious. I do believe that US cablecos do broadcast at VBR, as when at the end there was panning of the audience it went up to 14,15mbps, but that was probably just to stop it turning into a blockfest. Its kind of depressing when Live 8 was broadcast at a higher bitrate on an SD transmission though...
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Sure it wasn't just re-encoded with VBR by the rip program?
Live8 was 15Mbps SD? You sure? This would have put it well in excess of DVD quality.
EDIT: The rebroadcast on US TV was coded at about 7.6Mbps.