MPeg-4 war--a shame since voom's the winner

[rang1995]

http://www.avrev.com/news/0305/17.mpeg4.html

 

[Bruce]

This story says nothing about Voom except this part 'satellite providers know how hard consumers and market share is to earn (just ask VOOM) ,.
It is also very wrong in the facts about E* with this:
'Years ago, Dish Network replaced their early HDTV user's HD receivers (the only ones you could export HDTV to a D-VHS recorder on) with the first HD-DVRs. The ones who were recording to D-VHS were mad for a while, but virtually everyone else was pretty happy to have a new receiver.'

I think they mean the 5000, then the 6000 came out, then the OTA upgrade for it, then the the other upgrade ( QPSK)?, then the 811, then the 921 HD-DVR came out, and now the 942 HD-DVR in about a month now.

 

[beast37799]

http://www.avrev.com/news/0305/17.mpeg4.html

how is voom the winner in mpeg4 please explain

 

[Foxbat]

MPEG4 is the latest encryption method for HDTV that providers like DirecTV are investing hundreds of millions of dollars in this process, which can easily double the amount of HDTV channels that can be broadcast on a satellite system.

1) MPEG4 is a standard for encoding video, not an "encryption method";
2) With MPEG 4, DirecTV can stop broadcasting psuedo-HD and go back to full resolution on their HD channels. Or will they?

 

[DarrellP]

2) With MPEG 4, DirecTV can stop broadcasting psuedo-HD and go back to full resolution on their HD channels. Or will they?

Yeah, right, just like Voom was supposed to have pristine HD with the Haromonic encoders. Face it, all the sat companies want is more channels and with D* advertising 1500 HD channels, what do you think? Unless they can achieve some miraculous compression w/o mucking up the picture, I think HD Lite is here to stay.

 

[T2k]

Most likely... "1500 HD channels"... actually in any other country DTV would have been sued and fined for this outrageous deliberate deceit.

 

[DarrellP]

They will have 1500 HD channels, but they will be LIL HD so you can only get YOUR market. What a hype!

 

[riffjim4069]

They will have 1500 HD channels, but they will be LIL HD so you can only get YOUR market. What a hype!

VOOM provides an OTA antenna used to receive 1491 DTV channels currently on the air. Other than HD National feeds for those in an underserved area, I have never seen the big deal with providing bit starved LIL HD.

 

[DarrellP]

Other than HD National feeds for those in an underserved area, I have never seen the big deal with providing bit starved LIL HD.

It's called "Bragging Rights". You know ol' Rupert must have a head the size of a football stadium.

 

[T2k]

They will have 1500 HD channels, but they will be LIL HD so you can only get YOUR market. What a hype!

That's what they would get fined for outside of Corporate United States...

 

[wase4711]

remember, 1500 HD channels means 300 cities will be able to get 5 HD channels each...
Obviously there aren't 1500 "unique" HD channels out there...

 

[jose44]

Weekly Award

That's what they would get fined for outside of Corporate United States...

Nothing personal--but what the hell are you talking about? Bulgaria? Moldova? Bolivia?

In a world of nonsensical postings, yours is this week's winner.