[David Curle]

Yes this is MPEG2 Program stream at 12Mb/sec. It is data streamed over a microwave then transmitted on a UHF channel. It does not use Satellite. I just wondered if I was Missing something as all the other Stations I have been at, use Edius Broadcast SDI Edit suites that have Procoder 2 built into them and you can have any Bit rate you wish. The encoding is very fast as these machines use Dual Dualcore Opterons and the encoding is distributed to the CPUs. By fast i mean it can encode a 90 minute DV Timeline to MPEG2 Programstream in 10.5 minutes.
I thought FCP could do something professional also. There is a visible diference between 8Mb/sec and 12Mb/sec.