tony sayer wrote:
It's just a pity that the BBC don't want to increase the bit rates of
their services, despite the fact that they've got 200 Mbps of
capacity at their disposal on satellite, with about 80 Mbps being
used for the different regions of BBC1 and 40 Mbps being used for
BBCi, while the BBC network radio stations (e.g. all the ones on the
BBC DAB mux) have to get by with just 2 Mbps. Obviously, the BBC
could easily increase the radio stations bit rates to provide good
audio quality without affecting anything else (you wouldn't miss 0.6
Mbps off the 80 Mbps of BBC1 bandwidth), but they choose to provide
lowish bit rates, almost certainly to minimise the difference
between DAB and satellite. See:

I think your time would be better spent campaigning for Satellite
rates to be upped for serious listening use, and leave DAB to the
portable and "couldn't give a toss about the sound" market!....


AKA the Poundstretcher brigade...


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