The Engadget HD Interview: DirecTV's CTO RE: HD Lite

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Bill @ Jan 11th 2007 12:49PM

He basically dodged the issue(s). He has no explanation for why the national HD and SD channels look so bad as well.

His implication that MPEG4 provides higher PQ than MPEG2 is a distortion. MPEG4 is merely a more efficient compression format. By stating that MPEG4 will be a leap better in terms of quality he's only promising they will not be overcompressing the signal as they are now. It's all too aparent how well DirecTV keeps it's promises.

As far as the new HD channels go(is it 50, 70, or 150?), I suspect, even if DirecTV fulfills this one promise, we(DirecTV subs)will still be the last ones to get them.

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