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DirecTV's 1st MPEG4 Satellite Launch Successful

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the final-frontier-seems-a-little-boring-lately dept.

tivoKlr writes "Looks like the 1st Spaceway satellite to provide "1500 channels of HD" has made it successfully into space. MPEG4 compression and local HD channels, something that the cable company can't offer in my area." Unfortunately the new satellite obsoletes the HD Tivo, and there's no word on when there will be a new one.

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  1. Yes, but does it play DOOM? by gevmage · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Hey, I wonder if you could run Linux on those...

    er...no...how about a Beowulf cluster of...

    er...no...how about the world's best Myth-TV setup? Yeah, that'd be good!

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  2. 49,391,337 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    49,391,337

  3. Before:1-0 to Elch. Now: 1-1 by picz · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The story made it to Slashdot
    Elch's webserver is gone
    Mission accomplished for 'bitchecker' /picz

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  4. Krusty blew up Courtesy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    DTR is going to be pissed.

  5. goa7 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    roots and gets on of HIV 4nd other