Number of HD Channels?

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I don't believe that Bell have 3 HD channels per transponder unless something has changed recently. This is based on format and bitrate results from people who record BEV to PCs.

See the following thread:

http://www.digitalhome.ca/forum/showthread.php?p=439937#post439937

If BEV is really putting 3 channels per transponder, I'd like to see some hard evidence of this, not just heresay (from a Cable employee ;) ). Remember that many of these channels are only part-time.
 
how do you figure they bring 1080i content to 720p. Isint 1080i in reality only 540 lines of info at a time vs 720p is 720 lines of info at a time? where they getting the extra 180 lines?
 
The information in that thread is almost a year old; that doesn't mean it's not mostly accurate, but a lot of viewers seem to think that the HD picture quality has taken a significant hit with the start of fall TV season.

The table at http://www.lyngsat.com/packages/expressvu2.html is probably one of the better indications of what channels are on each transponder, but it too is a bit behind reality since it doesn't have SRC-HD, RDS-HD, SuperChannel HD, and several others that have been added by Bell recently.
 
Am I reading that LyngSat (dated) table correctly in that none of the transponders have 3 channels except for MC1/MC2/Preview?
 
Their are transcoders that handle all these type of conversions.
Not much different than a video scaler.
Up, Down, Sideways, you put a signal IN, you select what you want OUT.
 
...and 720P actually uses less bandwidth than 1080i, that's why BEV is using it. 720P doesn't have 180 more lines than 1080i, it has 360 fewer, they are just progressive instead of interlaced.
 
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