Norsk rikskringkasting (NRK), the Norway's national broadcasting company, has made one of their most popular TV shows available via BitTorrent. The series called Nordkalotten 365 follows a hiker, Lars Monsen, through his year-round trip in the north of Scandinavia. The first two episodes are online, and the rest of the episodes follow as they are encoded.
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Here is a prime example of a broadcaster that has put technology to good use rather than just complain about it.
Quote:The episodes are in MP4 file format without DRM protection, and are encoded with MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 (bitrate 3 Mbit/s) using the Resolution 1024x576 at 25 fps.
That's bloody good quality as well. To accomidate the 16:9 image, rather than cut off the height they have expanded the width, good thinking!
