29-12-2022, 10:30 PM
(29-12-2022, 06:52 PM)Stooky Bill Wrote: Also Sky have a lot more bandwidth to play with on that transponder than the BBC will have on theirs. So the bit rate of BBC1 South will possibly be higher than the others
Not really, Sky has more channels on that transponder than the BBC has on thiers (currently 9 compaired to 5 on the BBC TPs). And Sky run higher error correction (2/3 vs. 3/4 on the Beeb) so they only end up with about 3 mbps worth of more capacity on that TP and per channel you actually end up with less space than on the BBC transponders.
If you go to Digitalbitrate and compare the BBC1 South feed with the others that are on the two BBC transponders they all do have an average of around 5mbps for the picture, but while the Sky hosted South feed tops out at around 8mbps the others look like they can do up to 17 on demanding scenes.