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Originally Posted by virginruinedntl
espn classic isn't a earth shattering addition hehe, cant be many people who would watch it. Setanta HD would probably be crap bitrate if they did make a hd channel as their SD channel uses really low bitrates which make football etc look horrible. Sky sports is around 5-6mbps which looks very nice, bbc around 4.5mbps. setanta is around 2.5mbps and looks very bad. Eurosport use awful resolution and bitrate on SD and on their HD channel.
MTVHD would be welcomed too.
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This is off topic but you are completely and utterly wrong. Some of the setanta SD channels actually have high, not low bitrates and the figures you quote are wrong (setanta 1 is a lot higher than 2.5Mbs and BBC1 is actually usually the lowest of the bitrates but they are all around 4-5Mbs). I agree they look extremely poor but this is down to encoders and production. The only thing I agree on is SD on setanta is so bad that I hope they do get HD.
Eurosport HD looks fantastic. SD is very washed out and annoying in 4:3, it really shows off what HD can do.
As for ESPN I hope they do add it to standard def, it's extra sports, everyone likes different things.