I don't know much about dish and myth, but I think I can answer your MPEG4 questions.<br>
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When: Sometime in the next 12 months.<br>
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Rationale: Better compression is need to fit hundreds of HD
channels in currently available bandwidth. MPEG4 playback
hardware is cheap enough to satisfy the bean counters. <br><br>
Etc.: Current hardware can't decode MPEG4 signals, but the vast
majority of current hardware can't decode MPEG2 HD either. The SD
-> HD changeover (which is well under way, despite the caterwauling
by some Cassandras on this list) presents a one time opportunity for
the sat. companies to upgrade their tech simultaneously.<br>
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<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/30/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Robert La Ferla</b> <<a href="mailto:robertlaferla@comcast.net">robertlaferla@comcast.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Steve Adeff wrote:<br>> As well, you won't get any HD channels with the PC tuner cards and when they<br>> do the switch to MPEG4 you won't be able to tune those channels either.<br>><br>Tell me more about the switch including the timeframe, rationale,
<br>etc... What current tuner cards will work minus HD/mpeg4? I have a<br>pcHDTV HD3000 card but so far it's just being used for analog cable<br>w/tvtime. I can't get audio out of it without having to use a cable so<br>
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