Digital TV Technical Discussion

[tonks8526]

I suggested earlier this year that they all go MPEG-4 for everything and just leave 7 and 7TWO in MPEG-2 SD. Also run 7Flix as HD instead of 7TWO.

@tonks8526

Here’s what they should do.

7 SD MPEG-2
7TWO SD MPEG-2

7HD HD MPEG-4
7mate HD MPEG-4
7flix HD MPEG-4

7food SD MPEG-4
Racing SD MPEG-4
Openshop SD MPEG-4

I’d actually leave 7 and 7TWO as the only MPEG-2 services. My theory is the 7TWO audience is older and won’t like losing it if it went MPEG-4. 7Flix has a lot of movies and newer shows that would benefit being HD.

HD Broadcasting

You’d be surprised. They’d come close. Racing.com and Openshop are MPEG-4 SD and barely running above 1Mbps each. The SBS radio channels are Layer 2 and probably minimum 192kbps, could even be 224 or 256? They do use AAC on the Pop channels which would be less bits: SBS Arabic24 MPEG-1 Layer 2 SBS Radio 1 MPEG-1 Layer 2 SBS Radio 2 MPEG-1 Layer 2 SBS Chill MPEG-1 Layer 2 SBS Radio 3 MPEG-1 Layer 2 SBS PopDesi AAC SBS PopAsia AAC I’d like to see them do more MPE…