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Re: Discovery Starts MPEG-4 Migration For Five HD Services

jhy1978 wrote:

Actually the HD quality will go DOWN, mpeg2 are larger and better quality then mpeg4 and they are doing it to free bandwidth on satellites has nothing to do with IPTV. The quality will actually be noticebly worse like the other channels now.


No, afraid not, properly done MPEG4 is undetectable against an MPEG2 (has been suggested it may even be slightly better).  Remember it's not w/the compression on Uverse's MPEG4 H.264 implementation. :smileywink:

 

Chris


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