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Originally Posted by spiderplant
You are correct that the Samsung V+ supports MPEG4. The last of the Scientific-Atlanta ones were decommissioned a few months ago. VM hasn't switched to MPEG4 yet simply because there hasn't been any need to.
The Pace boxes are SD-only, so switching the HD channels to MPEG4 wouldn't affect them. There is little benefit in switching the SD channels to MPEG4.
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You say that, but given the more efficient encoding wouldn't it help some of the more excessively compressed channels, like food network?
Is it just the case there is enough bandwidth for the TV channels in existence and therefore they don't need to swap to MPEG4 or is it that the costs outweigh the benefits for the timebeing? I'd have thought it'd be harder / more expensive to source MPEG2 encoding hardware these days compared to MPEG4.