Quote from: raymondjpg on May 30, 2024, 03:34:47 PMAt least ABC iview offers a reasonably decent bitrate for 720p compared to SBS On Demand, whose 720p bitrates are quite frankly atrocious for a publicly funded broadcaster.Selected content on iView is at 1080p ... think of major local & OS drama shows. Most of iView is around 1200kb/s.
With SBS they reduced the bitrate of their content on SBS/OD around October last year. It went from about 1500kb/s down to around 900kb/s. As with most things, SBS own productions, such as, Who Do You Think You Are? is at higher bitrates.
"...publicly funded broadcaster". Therein lies the problem, both have been staved of funds over recent years and almost certainly don't have the necessary funds to invest in the required storage, bandwidth, etc. to support high bitrate streaming.