I, like many of you out there, am anxiously awaiting MPEG4. I thought I would throw my thoughts out as to how this will roll out. I think the approval of the Rainbow1 sale will be announced soon. This will be followed by the MPEG4 announcement in the November Charlie Chat. MPEG4 will be made available on Rainbow1 at 61.5. The 811 receivers will be swapped out for 411's. All of the programming now being offered in MPEG2, including the HD will remain unchanged. All of the HD programming offered now in MPEG2 will be duplicated in MPEG4 at Rainbow61.5. Possible immediate additions will be the entire Superstation pack, CBSHD, the rest of VOOM, HBOWest, ShoWest, PlayboyHD. These are stations they already have deals with. All of the additions not available now in MPEG2 will only be available in MPEG4. With the bandwidth available they can be more aggressive in landing other available stations. I know that Dish promises being broken is a running joke, but with pressure from D*, cable, and now FIOS in the MPEG4 arena, I think the November announcement sounds reasonable. This scenario allows them to introduce MPEG4 without interfering with any of the established programming.
I'm far from an authority and am humbled by some of the technical talk here, but I thought I would start an MPEG4 roll-out speculation thread.
Any other thoughts?
I'm far from an authority and am humbled by some of the technical talk here, but I thought I would start an MPEG4 roll-out speculation thread.
Any other thoughts?
