Sub Channel Questions

[SRW1000]

That 19.38 Mb/s rate - that's on the OTA channel, right?

Is there anything that says that they couldn't offer a higher bitrate version on the fiber feed they provide to the cable/satellite/IPTV providers?

Yes, they could provide a separate feed to the other providers.  Keep in mind that other providers have their own bandwidth issues, though, so it might not end up being a better solution.

Scott

[InsulinJunkie]

That 19.38 Mb/s rate - that's on the OTA channel, right?

Is there anything that says that they couldn't offer a higher bitrate version on the fiber feed they provide to the cable/satellite/IPTV providers?

Practically speaking, besides the fact that the cable/sat companies would generally just turn around and recompress the holy hell out of it anyways, I believe a couple of the networks deliver their network programming to their affiliates already encoded at the intended bitrate for broadcast, so there would be no higher bitrate version to offer.