the reason why there is and will be "HD Lite" is that they like to make the most money on the least amount bandwidth used with the least amount of effort possible. pretty much how most corporations operate unfortunately. Beyond that, they might have capacity for 150 hd channels or whatever the claim is, there is not even close to that many channels yet, and won't be for some time.
HD-lite is a compromise a provider makes when they don't have enough bandwidth to provide all the programming they want. If they have more bandwidth than programming they will not do HD-lite. Initially this will be the case when DirecTV deploys MPEG4 satellites for national channels. DirecTV's CTO has confirmed that they don't have any plans to use HD-lite with MPEG4.
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the reason why there is and will be "HD Lite" is that they like to make the most money on the least amount bandwidth used with the least amount of effort possible. pretty much how most corporations operate unfortunately. Beyond that, they might have capacity for 150 hd channels or whatever the claim is, there is not even close to that many channels yet, and won't be for some time.
HD-lite is a compromise a provider makes when they don't have enough bandwidth to provide all the programming they want. If they have more bandwidth than programming they will not do HD-lite. Initially this will be the case when DirecTV deploys MPEG4 satellites for national channels. DirecTV's CTO has confirmed that they don't have any plans to use HD-lite with MPEG4.