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Originally Posted by popper
so , to recap, Virgin media accountants made good short term profits on the books by dropping the far better long term NTL AVC capable STBs, and instead contracting for millions of antiquated end of line Mpeg2 only V+ STBs that couldnt decode the worlds AVC standard.....
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And now we have the Samsung V+ boxes which
will decode MPEG4. If/when Virgin swap their HD contect to MPEG4 it probably won't be that difficult to swap out those SA V+ for Samsungs
They can then use the SA V+ boxes for those that don't want HD but do want a PVR
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the newest sky STBs do, for their AVC HD content, as do the new freeview STBS,etc, only Uk VM cable is still stuck on the antiquated Mpeg2 only codec 
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Again - Samsung V+ is AVC/MPEG4 capable
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totally lost me there ben , your flow doesnt make sense, if the STB had an AVC decoder, then you would keep it in that format, sending AVC to an Mpeg2 only STB would store it sure, but you couldnt do anything with it, least of all view it.... and the USB ports are mising the generic driver that exists for the V+ firmware so thats out too.... coying to an external USB drive and playing it on an AVC capable box, xbox360/PS3 for intance....
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I was trying to make sense of what OLD BOY posted. But what I meant is it can't be that difficut to shift content around your network in AVC format and then closer to the end user e.g local VoD servers transcode it back to whatever format the STB will handle.
Kind of like ZIP files do over the internet
