"bit starving" -- much less of an issue for HD, now that they aren't stressed for bandwidth and using the ancient mpeg2.
On the other hand, DirecTV continues to "bit-starve" SD; something it has done since about 2000, when it began stealing bandwidth to provide everyone their local stations over satellite. Even though this has since moved to spot-beams, the bit-starving continues. What used to be the best SD signal available -- better than OTA -- has been SD Lite for quite some time.
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Kevin Murphy @ Nov 15th 2007 11:27AM
"bit starving" -- much less of an issue for HD, now that they aren't stressed for bandwidth and using the ancient mpeg2.
On the other hand, DirecTV continues to "bit-starve" SD; something it has done since about 2000, when it began stealing bandwidth to provide everyone their local stations over satellite. Even though this has since moved to spot-beams, the bit-starving continues. What used to be the best SD signal available -- better than OTA -- has been SD Lite for quite some time.