Theoretically speaking, if Freeview went HD-only, how much of a difference would it make to the quantity of channels?
A sort of “how long is a piece of string” question ..
But roughly the two Arqiva muxes each with 16 channels would nit quite fit in three muxes
And as I pointed out the existing three PSB muxes can fit in two ....
so can SDN take its channels HD ... probably not.....
and who can afford the PSB mux costs ??? UKTV and orDiscovery perhaps
So the answer is NO.
But not by much....... but probably needs more than +1s removing
and there are vast commercial issues on pricing etc .....
And which mux which channel goes in as much if what we have now is a accident of history.
As Vaizey plan did not happen we will never know ...
after all that just mandated the PSBs to emit HD only and said nothing about the comm muxes ..
Of course in SD AVC the two Arqiva muxes could go in one T2 mux and at 704/720 * 576 static resolution.
Edit you can get more than 7 HD in 40Mbit now ..... but may be not 10 HD although imperatives n someone would ! The issues is more channels means a higher chance if two demanding the 15 Mbit/ channel currently set
Last edited by Technologist on 14 May 2020 7:59pm - 3 times in total