On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 18:48:42 GMT, wrote:

On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 10:36:43 +0000 (GMT), Jim Lesurf
wrote:


However - possibly due to the weak signal - some of the radio channels seem
poorer at times. And on a couple of occasions the 'World Service' seemed to
have a lot of 'modulation noise' behind the voices. Are these services
transmitted with higher information losses than the main TV channels?

Just had a look at the data rates on my Nebula DTV card, Radios 1-4
have a data rate of 192kbps, Radio 5, 96kbps and World service 64kbps.
Even tho' its mono its amazing that you can hear anything at that data
rate.

Come on, all internal telephone calls run at 64k with oodles of bandwidth
spare and your mobile phone gets away with 9.6k (or maybe twice that, I
forget). Isn't the World Service predominantly speech ?

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