AT&T: 15 Mbps Internet connections "irrelevant"

Sat Apr 1 20:58:34 UTC 2006

On Sat Apr 01, 2006 at 08:43:54PM +0000, Edward B. DREGER wrote:
> I'm curious how program content is currently stored.  (Note that I'm 
> totally ignoring live broadcast.)  If MPEG-2, I'd guess conversion to 
> MPEG-4 might produce less-than-desirable image quality.

Whilst MPEG-2 for broadcast purposes will be in the 3-5Mbps range, MPEG-2
for archival/storage will be at a significantly higher bitrate. If you're
storing at high bitrate MPEG-2, the transcoding to MPEG-4 will have much
better results than if you transcoded from broadcast quality MPEG-2.

Simon
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