Hope not. I'd hate to give up my HR20-700 w/ built in OTA.
We'll see - I think it's just not for me. I record most everything I care about anyway.tonyd79 said:Try it at next NR, I guess.
And any Comcast customer who thinks that is nuts. Not everything s available and Comcast on demand has always been jerky everywhere I've seen it.
Of course it is!Hoosier205 said:Again, sounds like a problem on your end.
Strange, what model receiver do you have and what software level is it running? I know you've mentioned Showtime on Demand a couple times, if you go to channel 1545, select Series and then Borgias do any of them show "Watch Now" as an option right above record option? My understanding was that it should be there and it will try to do the watch now but if it determines your connection is too slow it will then give you the option to record it and watch later or just cancel it.Mike Greer said:Wow - just verified that I don't have what it takes to subject myself to OnDemand! I saw your post and just went looking for anything that may say "Watch now" to try it. I couldn't find anything that gave me the option to watch now.
I have 3 HR24-500 all running 062c software.RAD said:Strange, what model receiver do you have and what software level is it running? I know you've mentioned Showtime on Demand a couple times, if you go to channel 1545, select Series and then Borgias do any of them show "Watch Now" as an option right above record option? My understanding was that it should be there and it will try to do the watch now but if it determines your connection is too slow it will then give you the option to record it and watch later or just cancel it.
You do seem to always have weird issues. A setup with 3 HR24s should be ideal. Great setup usually.Mike Greer;3173961 said:I have 3 HR24-500 all running 062c software.
Just checked again and none of the Borgias have 'Watch Now'.
I think I really actually may have a curse!
That was what I was referring to. Thought maybe you weren't up to date on software.Mike Greer;3173961 said:I have 3 HR24-500 all running 062c software.
Just checked again and none of the Borgias have 'Watch Now'.
I think I really actually may have a curse!
What?P Smith said:last days you guys posting too much but the topic: H.265
:backtotop
He means we (mostly me) have changed the topic from H.265 to OnDemand...Hoosier205 said:What?
Alas, logic and reason take a back seat to resources and priorities. If logic ruled the day, CIG and scanning with the AM21 would be something that worked on the HR2x series (scanning on the HR34 and higher proves it can indeed be done). It logic was the driver, DIRECTV would either kill or fix TV Apps and Media Center.Hoosier205 said:Logic will get you a long way however.
Given what's in the Clarke belt now (bandwidth) and what is installed in homes in terms of receiver technology (CODECs), this is not something that is going to begin to change for probably two years. It is surely premature to get excited about it.Mike Greer said:I headed down that path because I thought DirecTV could improve OnDemand with new bandwidth and codecs...
I'm far from excited about it!harsh said:Given what's in the Clarke belt now (bandwidth) and what is installed in homes in terms of receiver technology (CODECs), this is not something that is going to begin to change for probably two years. It is surely premature to get excited about it.
Though somewhat unclear at times, this was apparently what Philip Goswitz (DirecTV's SVP for Space and Communications and R&D) had in mind last year when he stated the plan was move all remaining SD channels without HD duplicates to the MPEG-4 Ka band and cease with any SD MPEG-2 programming on the Ku band (at 101 at least) in about 5 years.Beerstalker said:If/when DirecTV starts to offer 4K or 8K material then I could see them looking into using H.265 since they will most likely have to offer new hardware to support it anyway. I would guess by that time they will have probably quit supporting the old SD Mpeg2 stuff and moved all the other SD and HD channels over to Mpeg4 (and replace all customers receivers with MPEG4 equipment), then they will have the new hardware that does 4K.
IIRC, Phil Goswitz commented on that issue as well. That the RDBS band was destined to be used for HD/SD International programming.harsh said:It seems like the exotic stuff (3D, 4K) would be better placed in the exotic bands (I'm thinking RDBS) so that they can outfit those who can use it (a vanishingly small number) with special LNB assemblies and not take away bandwidth from the "conventional" satellites.
I don't think they GET any locals mpeg4.taz291819 said:I'm not sure of how many locals across the country Directv gets via MPEG-4, but I know here in Huntsville, they get the locals via OTA at their call center, and that's MPEG-2.
Could you give at least one example where [free] OTA is in MPEG-4/H.264 video compression ?taz291819 said:I'm not sure of how many locals across the country Directv gets via MPEG-4, but I know here in Huntsville, they get the locals via OTA at their call center, and that's MPEG-2.
P. Smith;P Smith said:If you could give at least one example when OTA is in MPEG-2/H.263 video compression....
I can't name any, I'm just replying to comments made on the 2nd page of this thread. Network may be sending their stuff to affiliates via MPEG-4, but I don't know of a single one (affiliate) that sends Directv a MPEG-4 feed.P Smith said:Could you give at least one example where [free] OTA is in MPEG-4/H.264 video compression ?
We don't have participants here like station engineers at AVS forum; perhaps real knowledgeable ppl could enlighten us ? Who knows perhaps inside station's infrastructure they using H.264 equipment, say for store old content/archiving ...taz291819 said:I can't name any, I'm just replying to comments made on the 2nd page of this thread. Network may be sending their stuff to affiliates via MPEG-4, but I don't know of a single one (affiliate) that sends Directv a MPEG-4 feed.