Thread: Are VM and Avinity demonstrating "NGTV" at a trade show later this week?
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Old 04-04-2009, 01:36   #42
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Re: Are VM and Avinity demonstrating "NGTV" at a trade show later this week?
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Originally Posted by ShadowTD View Post
Didn't VM invest in some H.264 -> MPEG2 kit for the headends a little while ago? So HD could be pushed around the majority of the network in the more bandwidth frugal 264, only using MPEG2 for the last leg?
That last leg is the bottleneck though, it needs to be H.264 throughout for HD content, using MPEG-2 is a massive waste of bandwidth, especially if they're supposedly pushing more HD channels on a creaky network.
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