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Originally Posted by epsilon
That's because the other broadcasters are stat-muxed and sharing video bandwidth. They are all muxed together by Comux at its Birmingham NOC. The local services are added separately at fixed bitrate so need to be at a much higher bitrate. It is by design. Adding the local service to stat-muxing would require a vast amount of extra encoders as the services would then have to be stat-muxed for each and every local TV area. Rather than a single national stat-mux with local services added at fixed bitrate. So, you are talking about dozens of extra, very expensive, encoders. They just won't do that for the local multiplexes which are run as cheaply as possible.
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Thanks for the explanation.
I wonder if they are going to axe all their +1s and sell the channel numbers. Two of them are timesharing on the Manchester Mux, so if the Movies+1 disappears on Local Mux, as seems to be the case, I can't see them keeping all three channel numbers going, especially now they have Catch-up on Freeview.