Thread: Coming Soon to Virgin TV
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Old 16-12-2008, 14:19   #937
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV
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Originally Posted by virginruinedntl View Post
....Eurosport HD is only around 11mbps, bbchd and sky sports hd use around 16mbps so eurosport looks pretty bad in comparison.
You are falling into the trap of equating bitrate with picture quality just like you do with setanta. If high bitrate were always a good picture quality then setanta sports1 would look gorgeous (it usually has a higher bitrate than BBC1 actually). It looks worse than any other channel that shows football such as sky sports hd, sky sports, five, bbc hd, bbc1/2, ITV1,ITV4.

Similarly Eurosport HD is not bad because it has 11Mbs. BBC HD is not anything special in HD it is just average picture quality in HD (still great) whilst hogging bandwidth, it gets less wow per Mbs than most of the other HD channels. Even if you were correct and Eurosport HD were pants it is a lot better than ITV4 or Eurosport SD when I watched the tour de france and it is perhaps one of the channels VM could get hold of.
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