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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:Quality of MPEG4 signals? by mrand · · Score: 1, Troll

    [...]which means the MPEG2 signal is compressed somewhere between 49-55:1.. That's insane, and MPEG 4 will hopefully lessen the compression ratio.

    Huh? Hopefully MPEG 4 will increase the compression ratio.

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