Curt Raymond wrote:
Thats a very vauge question...
Somewhere between 2 and 25 Mb (megabits) per second.
2Mb would be an SD signal from cable or a satellite, 25Mb is OTA HD. Yes you'll
get much higher quality television with rabbit ears that with ANY of the cable
or satellite providers. Comcast is one of the worst, their HD is something like
6Mb...
Remember 8 bits to the byte, 8Mb to 1MB.
Yeah, I was talking OTA. Found this on Wiki, basically correct?
"Each commercial terrestrial DTV channel in North America is permitted to be
broadcast at a data rate up to 19 megabits per second, or 2.375 megabytes per
second. However, the broadcaster does not need to use this entire bandwidth for
just one broadcast channel. Instead the broadcast can be subdivided across
several video subchannels (aka feeds) of varying quality and compression rates,
including non-video datacasting services that allow one-way high-bandwidth
streaming of data to computers."
My old Pinnacle setup records VCD at 1.15 MB and DVD at 6.0MB by default. I can
adjust that up or down a bit if I choose. My old recordings from analog TV were
usually made with a custom setting of MPEG 1-HQ, 352x240, 2.0 or 2.5MB/sec. Now
I record DTV at 720x480, I usually get decent motion at 6MB/s.
One of our local channels has standard, HD, and two alternate programs. I wonder
how much they allocate to the HD subchannel?
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