Re: AT&T: 15 Mbps Internet connections "irrelevant"

[Marshall Eubanks <tme () multicasttech com>]

I archive NTSC video in MPEG-2 at roughly 30 Mbps.
That way, there are no worries about future codecs being too good for  
the archives.

Regards
Marshall

On Apr 1, 2006, at 3:58 PM, Simon Lockhart wrote:

> On Sat Apr 01, 2006 at 08:43:54PM +0000, Edward B. DREGER wrote:
> > I'm curious how program content is currently stored.  (Note that I'm
> > totally ignoring live broadcast.)  If MPEG-2, I'd guess conversion to
> > MPEG-4 might produce less-than-desirable image quality.
>
> Whilst MPEG-2 for broadcast purposes will be in the 3-5Mbps range,  
> MPEG-2
> for archival/storage will be at a significantly higher bitrate. If  
> you're
> storing at high bitrate MPEG-2, the transcoding to MPEG-4 will have  
> much
> better results than if you transcoded from broadcast quality MPEG-2.
>
> Simon
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