DTT – Loads of Space

One of the other things it mentioned in that Broadcast article about C4 getting out of Quiz Call is that although it’s giving up the channel, it’s hanging onto the Freeview slot. The worrying thing about that is that Quiz Call on Freeview has to be the most overcompressed channels on the platform. I certainly wouldn’t want to watch a proper channel with so little bandwidth allocated to it. It’d be like watching a YouTube video on the net. Fine in a small 320 x 240 box, but rubbish blown up to full size.
In other news, BBC Parliament is going fullscreen on Freeview. Currently it shares a channel with the News 24 on demand service with BBC Parliament, and two news streams using a quarter of the screen each. So my question is this: where is the extra bandwidth coming from? Are they stopping using one of the two permanent interactive channels? Unlikely. Or are all the other BBC channels on the same multiplex (B) getting compressed a bit more to make space? We’ll find out at the State Opening of Parliament.


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