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<blockquote data-quote="hexah" data-source="post: 659013" data-attributes="member: 333852"><p>From my own satellite radio listening experience, I have found that when video is breaking up, the radio channels on the same transponder with a similar signal quality usually are OK or have a few farting noises which can be tolerated.</p><p></p><p>The reason is that MP2 was designed in the 1980s to be exceptionally resilient, but sadly it is no where near FM sound quality. It sounds crap at 192kbs, sometimes poor and often sibilant at 256kbs, still lacking at 320kbs compared to MP3 at 192kbs and the ancient sample banks sound just plain dire compared to the vastly superior encoding of MP4 at 128kbs. MP2 at 128kb can even sound crap through TV speakers - it really is that bad!</p><p></p><p>So your theory is right :-worship</p><p></p><p>Still, MP4 is the future. If you have heard it, it is far better than MP2 and MP3.</p><p></p><p></p><p>There are lots of excellent classical music stations on Hotbird, Astra and Thor. They are all on 320kbs compared to BBC Radio 3 on 192kbs O-no what is it with the BBC these days? :mad:</p><p></p><p></p><p>Some German public TV stations like Das Erste also transmit in AC3 aka Dolby Digital which is way better than MP2, so you can compare MP2 and AC3 just by switching audio stream (you may need to use a computer satellite card for this). </p><p></p><p>Sadly no FTA radio in AC3 that I am aware of, but MP4 is way better than AC3, and will be introduced alongside HD TV on DVB-S2 transponders.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hexah, post: 659013, member: 333852"] From my own satellite radio listening experience, I have found that when video is breaking up, the radio channels on the same transponder with a similar signal quality usually are OK or have a few farting noises which can be tolerated. The reason is that MP2 was designed in the 1980s to be exceptionally resilient, but sadly it is no where near FM sound quality. It sounds crap at 192kbs, sometimes poor and often sibilant at 256kbs, still lacking at 320kbs compared to MP3 at 192kbs and the ancient sample banks sound just plain dire compared to the vastly superior encoding of MP4 at 128kbs. MP2 at 128kb can even sound crap through TV speakers - it really is that bad! So your theory is right :-worship Still, MP4 is the future. If you have heard it, it is far better than MP2 and MP3. There are lots of excellent classical music stations on Hotbird, Astra and Thor. They are all on 320kbs compared to BBC Radio 3 on 192kbs O-no what is it with the BBC these days? :mad: Some German public TV stations like Das Erste also transmit in AC3 aka Dolby Digital which is way better than MP2, so you can compare MP2 and AC3 just by switching audio stream (you may need to use a computer satellite card for this). Sadly no FTA radio in AC3 that I am aware of, but MP4 is way better than AC3, and will be introduced alongside HD TV on DVB-S2 transponders. [/QUOTE]
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