Subj : Re: Favorite Streaming service(s)
To   : The Lizard Master
From : Digital Man
Date : Thu Feb 13 2025 03:20 pm

 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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