when will dish start using MPEG 4?

[auburn2]

Any word on when dish will start using MPEG 4 and what sattelites will carry MPEG 4 programming?

[tomcrown1]

Any word on when dish will start using MPEG 4 and what sattelites will carry MPEG 4 programming?


Already has the new 5 voom channels and espn2 and nbc universal are all in mpeg 4 HD sat location 129

[Ron Barry]

It is my understanding that some of the locals are being delivered in MPEG4.

[Mikey]

ESPN2-HD, UHD, and the new VOOM channels are MPEG-2 encoded, wrapped in MPEG-4 headers.

[tomcrown1]

ESPN2-HD, UHD, and the new VOOM channels are MPEG-2 encoded, wrapped in MPEG-4 headers.
What?? did Charlie lie on his chat when he stated it was MPEG 4 ???

[Mikey]

What?? did Charlie lie on his chat when he stated it was MPEG 4 ???I think what he said was you'd need a new MPEG-4 capable receiver to get them.

[Ken Green]

A HD tech told me Dish is still several months from actually transmitting any MPEG4 encoded programming. He said there is much more to it than just having MPEG4 receivers out there.

[James Long]

The encoders are the issue. The tech chat back in November covered that well.

But there is MPEG4 out there today. All but a couple of the HD locals are in MPEG4.