Quote:
Originally Posted by mersey70
I won't pretend to understand all that but do any cable operators currently use MPEG4?
Some of the big cable operators of Europe are pushing for DVB-C2 which supposedly is 30% more efficient than DVB-C, VM have said they do not have any plans to use it though.
http://www.broadbandtvnews.com/2009/...-dvb-c2-ibc09/ |
DVB-C and C2 define how the data is formatted. They do not define what that data is. The current Cable system uses DVB-C to carry MPEG2 compressed data. As I understand it, there is no reason it cannot carry MPEG 4 compressed data.
And yes,
some cable companies do use MPEG 4..
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Quote:
Originally Posted by mersey70
I won't pretend to understand all that but do any cable operators currently use MPEG4?
Some of the big cable operators of Europe are pushing for DVB-C2 which supposedly is 30% more efficient than DVB-C, VM have said they do not have any plans to use it though.
http://www.broadbandtvnews.com/2009/...-dvb-c2-ibc09/ |
DVB-C and C2 define how the data is formatted. They do not define what that data is. The current Cable system uses DVB-C to carry MPEG2 compressed data. As I understand it, there is no reason it cannot carry MPEG 4 compressed data.
And yes,
some cable companies do use MPEG 4..
It's unlikely that the new Tivo box will have enough processing power required to encode MPEG 4.