Does Anybody Rember the Last Tech Chat?

[AIsmail]

Question for you all. Does anybody remember the last Tech Chat? I think that it was back in October or November. Anyway, I recall them saying that there would be no need to jump to MPEG4 right away cause they had incorporated a technology that would allow them to provide quasi-MPEG4 compression. After I heard that I thought, "I guess Dish won't be making the jump to MPEG4 right now." I guess I thought wrong. Unless by "right away" they meant that day but less then 4 months later, things have certainly changed. Anyone recall any of this.

 

[dimi1963]

Yes you are absolutely correct, the technology is 8PSK Turbo. They may have changed plans and go MPEG4 after all.

 

[RandallA]

in just a few weeks.

 

[Tom Bombadil]

Well, they were right. Dish is not making the jump to transmitting in MPEG4. They will continue to use 8PSK-Turbo over MPEG2. Only the channel headers will be in MPEG4, which will require you to have a MPEG4 receiver to decode them.

At this point in time we do not know when Dish will actually begin encoding program material in MPEG4.

 

[Indy]

Well, they were right. Dish is not making the jump to transmitting in MPEG4. They will continue to use 8PSK-Turbo over MPEG2. Only the channel headers will be in MPEG4, which will require you to have a MPEG4 receiver to decode them.

At this point in time we do not know when Dish will actually begin encoding program material in MPEG4.

Well that makes a hell of a lot of sense! Why not keep the headers on the new channels mpeg 2 since you state the actual program material is mpeg 2? At least all the current subs could view the new channels with the current mpeg 2 receivers. I don't understand the lack of rational thinking of the people at Dish.

 

[mdonnelly]

Well that makes a hell of a lot of sense! Why not keep the headers on the new channels mpeg 2 since you state the actual program material is mpeg 2? At least all the current subs could view the new channels with the current mpeg 2 receivers. I don't understand the lack of rational thinking of the people at Dish.

10% don't get the word:
http://www.satelliteguys.us/showthread.php?t=51730

 

[SimpleSimon]

10% don't get the word:
http://www.satelliteguys.us/showthread.php?t=51730

Truth!

Somebody close this thread before it turns into a duplicate of the other one.