On Demand bitrate

[Mark Strube]

When one orders a movie from On Demand in standard definition, does anyone know what the average bitrate on that is? I feel that when I'm paying $5.95 for a movie in standard definition, I should get at least close to DVD bitrates for a nice clear picture. Instead we get artifact city.

In fact the same is true for the HD pay-per-view, but it's not too often there's something on there that I actually want to watch.

[VoidXero]

Someone at TW should be arrested for the criminal act they pass off as HD pay-per-view movies.

[tencom]

On Demand is using a bit rate of about 2.5 megabits per second at a pixel rate of
480x480 pixels, which is not much better then VCR quality

[Mark Strube]

OUCH! :eek:

[tencom]

I like to correct my previous post which stated that the In-Demand pixel rate was 480x480 pixel rate I checked and found that I had In-Demand video files that I recorded in May  2004, before  TIME-WARNER began encrpyting Indemand and found they were at the pixel rate of 352x480 however I cannot give you the data rate because I recorded the entire channel  which had 7 video streams of indemand but gave the total channel QAM data rate of 38 Megabits per second
the channels that were used for indemand were cable channels 80,81,and 82 of the three recordings I have of indemand I would say that the data rate for each video stream was below 2.5 megabits