No can do Jeremy; current Dish boxes are MPEG-2 compliant. I've asked Dish how they intend to upgrade but haven't received a real answer yet.
Ian: more compression doesn't necessarily mean less quality. Compare uncompressed DVDs to MPEG-2; quality is similar but storage space is less for MPEG-2. This is a good thing: if MPEG-4 can compress better (i.e., use less bandwidth), you can fit more channels on the same infrastructure. That's how Dish will fit the extra VOOM channels; it won't require an additional satellite.
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Kevin C. Tofel @ Aug 25th 2005 6:02PM
No can do Jeremy; current Dish boxes are MPEG-2 compliant. I've asked Dish how they intend to upgrade but haven't received a real answer yet.
Ian: more compression doesn't necessarily mean less quality. Compare uncompressed DVDs to MPEG-2; quality is similar but storage space is less for MPEG-2. This is a good thing: if MPEG-4 can compress better (i.e., use less bandwidth), you can fit more channels on the same infrastructure. That's how Dish will fit the extra VOOM channels; it won't require an additional satellite.