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Originally Posted by BexTech
Time to stop worrying about MPEG2 just make all HD channels MPEG4 and ensure customers have MPEG4 capable boxes.
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What's that got to do with anything? I'm sure VM have plenty of spectrum to fit in more broadcast channels.
I'm pretty sure VM get their feeds and rebroadcast them, adding Nagra3 etc. I don't think any re-encoding currently occurs, so they'd then need a pretty big setup to re-encode all these MPEG2 feeds to MPEG4. It wouldn't improve the quality, because the original feeds would be the weak link.
It'd be costly in terms of encoding hardware and replacing MPEG2-only boxes. All it'd do was let them fit more channels in, and I doubt they're near capacity right now.