Thread: 2007 NFL Sunday Ticket information

Why can directv only carry 8 at a time? They claim to have tons of bandwidth don't they

They don't actually. The NFL Sunday Ticket is MPEG2 on DirecTV. We all know that their MPEG2 capacity has been over taxed for 2+ years hence the 8 HD channels they have had until recently when they launched the new MPEG4 sattelites.

It's purely conjecture at this point.... but all signs point to DirecTV migrating the NFL Sunday Ticket HD to MPEG4 next year in order to be able to broadcast "up to 14" HD games a week (next year ALL NFL games are in HD).

Hopefully, this will happen and hopefully, they will have enough bandwidth to allocate 14 dedicated HD channels so every game has it's individual channel. One last hopefully --> BEV follows suit (might not happen until the 2009 season).

This year BEV did a pretty good job...all things considered... However, next year, unless they have some major changes to their infrastructure (MPEG4), they will be missing several HD games (probably 3 per week on average).