I am getting my locals in HD from the 61.5 satellite - just don't see things such as ESPN, SciFi, TNT, HDNet, HDTheatre which are seen on 72.7. I'm not sure why ESPN2, ESPNews are both on 61.5 but ESPN is on 72.7.
Anyways- to get back to the point: I have a VIP 612 which I believe is MPEG-4...