all references to rates are for video only.....
Yes - also HD-PPV is higher, though i have seen some interesting things in the last 2 months.
Showtime rates on 110 have AT TIMES shown some very high rates - not as high as 148W, but within 1 Mbps many times. There used to be a higher difference all the time.
HBO is head scratcher. Normally 148W is pretty high - but on one movie last week that I set up to record on both birds at the same time, 110W actual had a higher bitrate. I have never seen that happen before and don't know what to make of it.
HD PPV normally averages a very high 17.50+Mbps and much lower on 110. However they have a problem with the HD-PPV encoder on 148W AGAIN - so it gives about 50-100 small frame errors per event now - which is not the case on 110.
They had the same issue about 6 months ago and it was fixed - but back again - lots of luck getting them to fix it - they continue to move at their own pace as always.