[BC] Changes in the Channels

[Robert Meuser]

Actually PBS is crunching the bits. They are running 3 programs.  19 megabits is 
the full data rate for HDTV 18 odd megabits is available for actual video. PBS 
is probably running around 13 megabits for the HD programming. At this point 
only CBS is devoting the full bandwidth to HDTV. This may change at some point 
in the future.

R

WFIFeng at aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 01/10/2006 11:50:36 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
> richwood at pobox.com writes:
> 
> 
>>I was impressed enough to buy it. What you need to see is an over the 
>> air signal. Particularly the PBS-HD stuff. It can be breathtaking.
> 
> 
> They probably aren't crunching the bits very much, either... they are using 
> their whole multi-megabit bandwidth for that one video feed. That would make a 
> big difference. Like comparing 96K joint stereo MP3 audio with 320K stereo MP3.
> 
> What is the actual data pipe on a standard OTA HDTV signal?
> 
> Willie...
> 
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