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Old 21-10-2005, 20:02   #69
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Re: PVR for NTL
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Originally Posted by kronas
thats good news, however i thought progressive was a much better way of broadcasting content as interlacing can cause flicker on larger screens ?

also i read HDTV in the US is MPEG-2 whilst we will be getting MPEG-4, so which is best ?
MPEG4. It's a better compression scheme, along the lines of DivX or WMV. It means that you can send an HD picture using the same bandwidth (and disk space, as the Digital Spy idiots seem to be forgetting) as an MPEG2 encoded SD picture.

Interestingly however, Telewest's PVR -- if they're going to go ahead with it still -- is HD capable, but only using MPEG2.
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