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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. Re:For someone not hip on the lingo by MarkGriz · · Score: 1, Redundant

    "Can someone confirm that a software update could not be used to add MPEG-4 support to the HD Tivo?"

    MPEG decoding in the DTivo boxes is done in hardware, so a software update isn't possible.
    There are plently of $1000 HD Tivo owners pissed off about it.

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