New Higher-Res Video File Format?

Regarding this "near-DVD" quality--I know Apple upped the resolution of video offerings on the iTS to 640x480, but any word on the encoding format and bit rate? If movies are offered in surround sound, is it still 128kbps AAC? Is it still 540kbps AVC0/H.264? Or has that all been upped? I would hope it has been...Looks like movie offerings are about 1GB, give or take 500MB...

I downloaded one of the free videos (ABC's promo video for Desparate Housewives), and compared it to the season primiere for Blade which was downloaded before.
Both have 128k stereo AAC for audio, and AVC-encoded video.
Only difference I can see is the resolution of the video has been increased from 320 wide to 640 wide. (How high depends on if it's widescreen or normal.) Video bit rate has been increased as well, due to its higher resolution.
Also, the new video wouldn't sync with my 60 gig iPod with Video (most recent model before last week) before updating its firmware with today's iPod 1.2 Updator. Now it works great.
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