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At 02:08 PM 1/11/2006 -0600, you wrote:
>One other thing that should be cleared up is the reference to "MPEG4
>satellites" and "MPEG2 satellites." The satellites don't care one bit how
>the programming is encoded - they just slurp up the one's and zero's from
>the uplink center and spit them back out to our dishes on another
>frequency. Therefore, the programming (SD or HD) can be transitioned to
>MPEG4 at whatever time the provider can make the necessary receiver
>swap-outs.
Exactly. Dish is rolling out new HD channels that will only be
picked up by the new receivers and DVRs which are both MPEG2 and
MPEG4 compatible. And the new HD locals, as they are added, 5
locations at a time, will all require MPEG4 devices. At the moment,
nothing that's already out there will be switched from MPEG2 -> MPEG4
immediately. Of course, this will change later on whenever Dish
decides to phase out receivers with only MPEG2 capabilities. Until
that time (probably years away) people who wish to stand pat won't
lose programming (with rare exception). They just won't be getting
any new features.
-- RAF
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At 02:08 PM 1/11/2006 -0600, you wrote:
>One other thing that should be cleared up is the reference to "MPEG4
>satellites" and "MPEG2 satellites." The satellites don't care one bit how
>the programming is encoded - they just slurp up the one's and zero's from
>the uplink center and spit them back out to our dishes on another
>frequency. Therefore, the programming (SD or HD) can be transitioned to
>MPEG4 at whatever time the provider can make the necessary receiver
>swap-outs.
Exactly. Dish is rolling out new HD channels that will only be
picked up by the new receivers and DVRs which are both MPEG2 and
MPEG4 compatible. And the new HD locals, as they are added, 5
locations at a time, will all require MPEG4 devices. At the moment,
nothing that's already out there will be switched from MPEG2 -> MPEG4
immediately. Of course, this will change later on whenever Dish
decides to phase out receivers with only MPEG2 capabilities. Until
that time (probably years away) people who wish to stand pat won't
lose programming (with rare exception). They just won't be getting
any new features.
-- RAF
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