[mythtv-users] CBS sucks!

[Eric Sharkey]

On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com> wrote:
> On 10/31/2011 12:07, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
>> How about, if football (or anything else that is supposedly
>> hand-over-fist lucrative) runs over, CBS forfeits commercials for the
>> rest of the night until their schedule is caught up?  That's only fair.
>
> How is that fair?  CBS paid for that spectrum.  They can broadcast
> whatever they want using it.

Now that analog TV is dead and everything is a compressed multiplexed
bit stream, I don't see why they can't crank up the compression a bit
more during overtime and actually broadcast both simultaneously at
lower bitrates.  Just instantiate another plex and use EIT to mark
everything clearly.  (Yes, I know I'm glossing over *lots* of details,
but the fundamental idea is basically sound.)

Eric