It affects everyone though. I don't know if FIOS was pushing MPEG2 streams down the pipes or MPEG4, but if they were doing the latter, then they were transcoding, so the quality should improve in either case, and most likely you'll also have a bitrate reduction because when you're transcoding that always takes more bits than when you're coding from a high quality source than from another well compressed source.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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It affects everyone though. I don't know if FIOS was pushing MPEG2 streams down the pipes or MPEG4, but if they were doing the latter, then they were transcoding, so the quality should improve in either case, and most likely you'll also have a bitrate reduction because when you're transcoding that always takes more bits than when you're coding from a high quality source than from another well compressed source.