I have a solution: DirecTV should just quit using HD-Lite and up their bitrate... Now that we supposedly have all this extra bandwidth for new channels because of DTV 10 and the subsequent launch of DTV 11 in 2008... Why are we still subject to the mpeg-2 compression artifacts and lower-than-HD resolution? I realize that older customers that dont have the new 5-LNB satellites wouldnt be able to access local HD channels if they were recompressed in MPEG-4 but this is sounding like a good idea to me now. Its not like it costs you money to upgrade your dish... come on folks, get with the times.
" have a solution: DirecTV should just quit using HD-Lite and up their bitrate... Now that we supposedly have all this extra bandwidth for new channels because of DTV 10 and the subsequent launch of DTV 11 in 2008... Why are we still subject to the mpeg-2 compression artifacts and lower-than-HD resolution? I realize that older customers that dont have the new 5-LNB satellites wouldnt be able to access local HD channels if they were recompressed in MPEG-4 but this is sounding like a good idea to me now. Its not like it costs you money to upgrade your dish... come on folks, get with the times."
Not only would people need to upgrade their dish, but also their receiver AND their multiswitch. And I'm NOT willing to give up my DirecTV/HD-TiVo unit yet. In fact, if I wanted to switch, I'd have to give up my OTA antenna because I only have 4 cables coming from the roof and I currently multiplex OTA onto one of those. With the new dish, I can't multiplex, so no CW or extra local channels for me. (I need to confirm that DirecTV doesn't offer CW in HD via sat, but I don't believe they do).
The new MPEG-4 channels aren't HD-Lite from what I've read, so you should be happy with that - there aren't many MPEG-2 HD channels out there.
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I have a solution: DirecTV should just quit using HD-Lite and up their bitrate... Now that we supposedly have all this extra bandwidth for new channels because of DTV 10 and the subsequent launch of DTV 11 in 2008... Why are we still subject to the mpeg-2 compression artifacts and lower-than-HD resolution? I realize that older customers that dont have the new 5-LNB satellites wouldnt be able to access local HD channels if they were recompressed in MPEG-4 but this is sounding like a good idea to me now. Its not like it costs you money to upgrade your dish... come on folks, get with the times.
" have a solution: DirecTV should just quit using HD-Lite and up their bitrate... Now that we supposedly have all this extra bandwidth for new channels because of DTV 10 and the subsequent launch of DTV 11 in 2008... Why are we still subject to the mpeg-2 compression artifacts and lower-than-HD resolution? I realize that older customers that dont have the new 5-LNB satellites wouldnt be able to access local HD channels if they were recompressed in MPEG-4 but this is sounding like a good idea to me now. Its not like it costs you money to upgrade your dish... come on folks, get with the times."
Not only would people need to upgrade their dish, but also their receiver AND their multiswitch. And I'm NOT willing to give up my DirecTV/HD-TiVo unit yet. In fact, if I wanted to switch, I'd have to give up my OTA antenna because I only have 4 cables coming from the roof and I currently multiplex OTA onto one of those. With the new dish, I can't multiplex, so no CW or extra local channels for me. (I need to confirm that DirecTV doesn't offer CW in HD via sat, but I don't believe they do).
The new MPEG-4 channels aren't HD-Lite from what I've read, so you should be happy with that - there aren't many MPEG-2 HD channels out there.