All Dish HD needs to go MPEG 4!!!

[ehren]

My god what a difference from watching the Ravens/Bengals on ESPN HD and watching the start of the Cardinals/49ers game on ESPN2-HD, ESPN2HD is absolutely STUNNING.

 

[dewzan]

I understood charlie to on tonights chat "all HD is MPEG 4.

 

[mlb]

I compared both ESPN and ESPN2 HD's when both were showing the beginning of the SF/ARI game. Definitely was sharper and had better color on ESPN2.

 

[mlb]

I understood charlie to on tonights chat "all HD is MPEG 4.

He was mistaken. Not all has moved over yet.

 

[primetimeguy]

I compared both ESPN and ESPN2 HD's when both were showing the beginning of the SF/ARI game. Definitely was sharper and had better color on ESPN2.

+1

 

[RockinHARD26]

Yeah, Ravens purple jersey isn't my cup of tea though. I'm more of a Navy uniform kind of guy.

 

[MikeD-C05]

MY bet is that by the end of this year ALL hd will be mpeg 4. They have offered all kinds of incentives to upgrade to a mpeg 4 hd dvr. The last thing that they can do is call each sub with an mpeg 2 hd receiver and offer them over the phone an upgrade or they will lose their hd channels come the end of the year. THen they could easily move all hd to mpeg 4 freeing up bandwith for more hd channel additions.

 

[digiblur]

By the HD standards of the loading of MPEG2 HD they could run 8 HD channels per TP since they are running 4 per TP in MPEG2 mode right now.

 

[mdonnelly]

By the HD standards of the loading of MPEG2 HD they could run 8 HD channels per TP since they are running 4 per TP in MPEG2 mode right now.

Shhhh! Don't give them ideas.

 

[Jim5506]

They are using 3 MPEG2 HD channels per TP and 6 MPEG4 channels per TP.

 

[RandallA]

They are using 3 MPEG2 HD channels per TP and 6 MPEG4 channels per TP.

I see 4 MPEG2 channels on 110 TP 7 and another 4 on TP13 according to:

ekb.dbstalk.com

 

[digiblur]

I see 4 MPEG2 channels on 110 TP 7 and another 4 on TP13 according to:

ekb.dbstalk.com

Yes sir, you are correct. 4 HD MPEG2 streams per TP on 110w.

 

[RandallA]

Yes sir, you are correct. 4 HD MPEG2 streams per TP on 110w.

and that's why the picture quality on Discovery HD went to crap.

 

[digiblur]

and that's why the picture quality on Discovery HD went to crap.

DirecTV style 9-10mbps ... actually I can't say that anymore about DSCHD as their quality is much better at the moment.

 

[RandallA]

DirecTV style 9-10mbps ... actually I can't say that anymore about DSCHD as their quality is much better at the moment.

You're right! It has improved but for a while it was crap.

 

[Poke]

Yeah its not all on Dish's end most of the time when it comes to ESPN it all depends on what kind of cameras they are using at the game. Some games will look better than other simply due to they dont use the same hardware at each event. So it will vary from game to game.

 

[primetimeguy]

Yeah its not all on Dish's end most of the time when it comes to ESPN it all depends on what kind of cameras they are using at the game. Some games will look better than other simply due to they dont use the same hardware at each event. So it will vary from game to game.

While I agree with you about varying quality of broadcasts, I think you missed a couple posts about the same game being shown at the same time on both ESPN and ESPN2. ESPN2 in MPEG4 by Dish was much better than the same broadcast on ESPN in MPEG2 by Dish.