Sky Now TV actual bandwidth use

I've registered and paid for a day pass to watch the US Masters via my Xbox 360.

It looks as though it has selected standard def but was just wondering if anyone knew how many Megs/Gigs it uses per hour as although I'm on an unlimited package I don't want to pee off the good people at Xilo for using too much bandwidth.

Between 0.5Mbps in SD and 4Mbps in HD.

I should be ok then.

In reply to a post by 5km:

4Mbps in HD.

Surely golf isn't that fast? Aussie 'no rules football' for sure, but golf?

Nick

Actually Golf is an interesting encoding exercise, green putts don't need a lot potentially, but drives with the big pans will need a good codec to keep a good picture

In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

Actually Golf is an interesting encoding exercise, green putts don't need a lot potentially, but drives with the big pans will need a good codec to keep a good picture

Pretty sure NOW TV doesn't even stream live in HD.

PAY ... Why? http://www.viplivesports.eu/

Its in theory SD, but seems to be reasonable picture so not a low bit rate SD

In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

Actually Golf is an interesting encoding exercise, green putts don't need a lot potentially, but drives with the big pans will need a good codec to keep a good picture

I wonder if that would explain why I often lose sight of my ball after I've hit it. It wouldn't be so bad except it rarely lands where I expect either

Not unless you have digitally aided spectacles. Though even analogue spectacles can cause this problem as they are typically narrowband.