Re: RRC-06 Maps

Kristoff Bonne <compaqnet.be@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Such a big broadcaster leasing bandwidth from somebody else? Are you
serious?

Why not? On hotbird, the ARD is on a transponder of T-telecom.

Because on Astra they have to broadcast more than one channel, that's
why.

BTW. The ARD itself does not have that much transponders. The analog
regional services are owned by the regional broadcasters.

Which, surprisingly, are part of the ARD and financed by the licence
fee.

Ofcourse, all this bandwidth is very usefull to have to add new stations
lateron and reduce the bandwidth of the 320 Kbps radio-stations.
No, they won't.

Are you sure?

Do you think that -when the space on that transponder becomes scares
when other services are added-

There are no "other services" to add.

... And by the way, your wacky pro low-bitrate arguments are
getting a bit tiresome, especially when they've already been refuted in
the past.

So are the high-bitrates argument. :-)

No, they aren't. In this particular case, your arguments are "but they
might add some new services", which they won't, they're not a commercial
operator providing pop music jukeboxes and home shopping channels. Or
"95% of the public won't notice the difference", what about the other
5%, and what's the point of having a strong public broadcaster if it's
not also to help improve technical standards?
Basically, the discussion ends here, as far as I'm concerned.

[...]
the manager will say. "OK, instead of
lowering the bitrates of the radio-stations from 320 Kbps to -say- 192
kbps, something nobody will notice anyway -except for a couple of
lonners on the internet-forums which to much time on their hands that
is-

The argumentations of you low bitrate apologists are getting
increasingly desperate.

... They explicitely chose to broadcast with an audio quality as
high as possible to eventually replace their ADR system, and
communicated that to the public, on their websites, brochures, etc.

Lession one of marketing-analysis. Never trust what a company spits out
as "official statements".

Oh yes, I can just see a public broadcaster retreating from using 320
kb/s, after they've advertised everywhere the benefits of the new
technology, which includes higher bitrates. I know you DAB supporters
are used to broadcasters lying and spinning, but they're not all like
that, you know...
.

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