DISH Network's 1080p VOD service gets inspected, looks impressive

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TrentD @ Oct 13th 2008 2:20PM

"Obviously, DISH's 1080p isn't the same quality 1080p as what you'll find on a BD-50 (something to do with sophisticated compression, we hear)"

Are you being ironic? Dish is probably using MPEG4, like most BD titles do, but the BD is almost certainly at a higher bitrate. That explains the Picture Quality difference much better than "sophisticated compression" does.

I am shocked, however, that the quality is apparently very good. What about lossless audio, though?

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Hostile slick inbound @ Oct 13th 2008 3:22PM

I think Dish Network uses something called 8PSK compression.

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Jeremy W @ Oct 13th 2008 3:49PM

8PSK is not a form of compression, it's a modulation scheme that they use on their satellite transmissions. MPEG4 is the compression format.

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