Will MPEG4 Make Your Current HD Receiver Obsolete?

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Hey everyone,

Something to be aware of. The latest technology - MPEG4 - could potentially
make your HD receiver obsolete.

Read the full story below...
http/www.avrev.com/news/0305/17.mpeg4.html

Diane

 

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MPEG-4 will take a long time to be SLOWLY adopted.DirecTV is the only
one right now that even plans to launch an MPEG-4 satellite soon,and
Ka-Band as well (current receivers are Ku-Band based).
In any event,both types of video streams will CO-exist for years to
come.

 

[Sean]

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On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 09:10:31 -0800, SAC441@webtv.net (SAC 441) wrote:

>MPEG-4 will take a long time to be SLOWLY adopted.DirecTV is the only
>one right now that even plans to launch an MPEG-4 satellite soon,and
>Ka-Band as well (current receivers are Ku-Band based).
> In any event,both types of video streams will CO-exist for years to
>come.


That may be true but existing receivers will not handle MPEG4.
I'd assume new receivers will be backwards compatible but
old receivers will not get the MPEG4 feed.

Sean