BBC HD Bitrate and Compression

RTNI

Hi all,

Does anyone know what compression BBC HD uses and what the bitrate for it is?

TIA.

scoobie

Its 9mbps MPEG 4
Used to be 20, then they cut it to 16. Two weeks back they cut it to 9mbps

As the recent cut is 40% its caused an uproar on the BBC HD blog as the picture quality has deteriorated (300 complaints in the past couple of weeks)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2008/11/bbc_hd_picture_quality_and_dol.html