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From: "Chris Adams" <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
The top profile for Blu-Ray is 36 megabits per second, and that is not used on most titles. Over-the-air HDTV is 19 megabits or less. Cable HD channels are often only 12-15 megabits per second.
Chris glances off, but doesn't quite say, that cable providers are prone to *reencode* OTA HDTV, leaving cable subscribers with a worse -- sometimes a *substantially* worse -- picture than they'd get from an OTA antenna. Bandwidth surfing is rarely so end-user visible. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274