Subj : Re: Favorite Streaming service(s)
To   : The Lizard Master
From : Digital Man
Date : Thu Feb 13 2025 15:20:48

  Re: Re: Favorite Streaming service(s)
  By: The Lizard Master to Nightfox on Thu Feb 13 2025 08:32 am

 >   Re: Re: Favorite Streaming service(s)
 >   By: Nightfox to The Lizard Master on Wed Feb 12 2025 02:25 pm
 >
 >  >  TL> Sports is better OTA as well, it's uncompressed.
 >
 >  > Compared to streaming?  Or compared to cable/satellite?
 >
 >  > Nightfox
 >
 > All of those are compressed, so OTA (with clean signal) will always beat
 > those.

OTA is compressed video as well, but uses more bandwidth per channel and thus supports real-time encoding at higher (perceived) fidelity. I think DirecTV used to allocate extra-high bandwidth channels for special live (e.g. sporting) events too, but I'm not sure if they still do.
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