[quote]All together now....
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"We're sorry Neil, you were right about ntl's HD 'service' & we were wrong.
You said it wouldn't be this year & you were right.
You also said it would be MPEG 2 & you were right"
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I really don't want to say "I told you so" but........
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I told you so!  
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ROTFL
i wonder if we can get more coverege on this mess and perhaps
have old
Mark Horley from ntl re-consider his and his teams choice.....
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MPEG-2 TVdrive
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Originally Posted by nn012
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MPEG-2/4/AVC Explorer 8450
rather than point out the obvious, ill mention this :
OMG, thats just so bad, i dont have time right now, but the first thing that jumps out is the 10baseT port rather than a real 10/100 (cant say moden, as even thats old) or even a far better for long term viability 10/100/1000 (a £12 retail card).
the 10baseT wont ever get near to the 10meg downloads they are about to switch to , so that rules out even faster speeds for the likes of future interactive content, or STB bound/embeded gaming.
the sound options on that TVdrive are so out there for todays commercial content, so it implys they will need to also mess about with the sound headend options in a few years( if not weeks OMG).
the fact that the tvdrive needs 2 slow 250mhz MIPS chips to do the business (you get better/faster MIPS CPU's on cheap wireless kit today) isnt very promising eather......
for the non-tech readers, the tvdrive is using obsolete/old tech thats being marketed as new NTL HD inovation and should have been bin'ed years ago for cheaper/better/more advanced tech hardware thats off the shelf and in full stock everywere today and the future too, not to mention (its using that liberate middleware shhh..... (the industry LOL's) )...... the BBC/itv/c4/c5 trials are using the real advanced/inovating HD MPEG-4/AVC video format just like the EU french.germans and others rather than the old US HD MPEG-2 video formats, so the TVDrive wont cut it/cant play it direct, and NTL will need to mess with the content and perhaps loose quality on the original content.