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Bitrates..

(March 2007)

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I have a question, what would be a decent bitrate on Freeview, Sky, Virgin for a SD 16:9 channel?
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Depends on what you're broadcasting.

If it is slow moving, drama type material where there isn't techniques like "fade to black" to mess up the rates then 6 Mbps is reasonable.

If it's fast-action, sporty type programming then 10 Mbps or more would be appropriate.

Also depends how stingy a broadcaster you are and how many channels you want to get onto your multiplex... (see Mux A on Freeview for an example of mis-utilising bandwidth)

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