Ah yes, I forgot that there are different standards depending on the country. To be quite honest, I haven't sat down and watched linear TV in years, but from wh

Ah yes, I forgot that there are different standards depending on the country. To be quite honest, I haven't sat down and watched linear TV in years, but from what I can tell at relatives' homes the quality here is not bad. Actually, out of curiosity I just looked up the bitrates for my local cable company. The quality seems to differ a lot: on average between 3 Mb/s MPEG-2 [1] and 12 Mb/s MPEG-4 [2]. So I guess my previous statement isn't really accurate and it depends on the channel. That website appears to be quite interesting btw; it also tracks YouTube bitrates for live and non-live video and in different encodings! [3] [1] https://www.digitalbitrate.com/dtv.php?mux=C049&pid=19126&live=202&sec=0&lang=en https://www.digitalbitrate.com/dtv.php?mux=C049&pid=19126&li... [2] https://www.digitalbitrate.com/dtv.php?mux=C049&pid=19130&live=202&sec=0&lang=en https://www.digitalbitrate.com/dtv.php?mux=C049&pid=19130&li... [3] https://www.digitalbitrate.com/dtv.php?lang=en&liste=2&live=400 https://www.digitalbitrate.com/dtv.php?lang=en&liste=2&live=...