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Originally Posted by Hymagumba
You say that, but given the more efficient encoding wouldn't it help some of the more excessively compressed channels, like food network?
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Channels such as Food Network are already compressed whan VM receive them. There is nothing that VM can do to improve the quality. (Must admit I hadn't noticed a problem on FN).
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Originally Posted by Hymagumba
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
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Yes.
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Originally Posted by Hymagumba
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.
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MPEG2 is basically a subset of MPEG4, and all the current encoders can do both.