Yeah. Comcast's CEO claims that they don't compress... Anyone could make that claim and be truthful. But what they don't tell you is that they are getting it at whatever bitrate they request via sat-uplink. More? Their system can only support a certain number of channels at full HD and SD resolutions. In my region, they have surpassed that number by a factor of two. How does one put a size 12 shoe in a size six box?
Squeeze hard.
And I concur with Phoenix on the (coulda/shoulda) single sat with spot-casting... But it would have been a damned big bird with more transponders than any of us have seen.
"Ah, HD DVD, our old friend - we thought we'd never see you again. But there was no mistaking it, here's the logo tucked away in Chinese manufacturer TCL's booth on a China Blue HD deck next to a similar Blu-ray player."
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Yeah. Comcast's CEO claims that they don't compress... Anyone could make that claim and be truthful. But what they don't tell you is that they are getting it at whatever bitrate they request via sat-uplink.
More? Their system can only support a certain number of channels at full HD and SD resolutions.
In my region, they have surpassed that number by a factor of two.
How does one put a size 12 shoe in a size six box?
Squeeze hard.
And I concur with Phoenix on the (coulda/shoulda) single sat with spot-casting... But it would have been a damned big bird with more transponders than any of us have seen.