On 20/09/2008 09:18, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

Sure it's not down to the quality of the programme being transmitted? Even
something that started out half decent - like a feature film - can suffer
from a poor transfer at some stage before transmission.

FreeView, on the other hand, does reduce the data rate on some channels.

Can be true in reverse too, to save bandwidth costs ITV channels are
transmitted at 544x576 on satellite, compared to 702x576 on freeview.