Holy Cable upgrade batman! Close to 100 HD channels now!

[spidey07]

Talk about upgrades! Now have almost 100 channels of HD with my cable company. 10+ free HD on-demand channels plus other HD pay per view. Not to mention 20 Mbs internet!

Go-Go-Gadget upgrades! Go-Go-Gadget POWER of hybrid fiber coax networks!

 

[Crono]

Provider?

 

[Alone]

I heard the U.S. is trying to switch all their signals over to digital come 1 April, 2009. Anyone else?

 

[spidey07]

Insight Communications. Their HFC engineers pushed as hard as they could to do what was necessary.

 

[0roo0roo]

well thats over the air broadcast.
as for cable, are they sending h264 or mpeg4 over their wires?
u'd think they'd move towards upgrading their system to h264 to decrease bandwidth use/increase quality..

 

[JohnCU]

how much $?

 

[Crono]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
well thats over the air broadcast.
as for cable, are they sending h264 or mpeg4 over their wires?
u'd think they'd move towards upgrading their system to h264 to decrease bandwidth use/increase quality..

I know satellite is MPEG-4, don't know about cable. I think it takes time for them to adopt standards, so you might see them using H.264 eventually.

EDIT: Looks like they use MPEG-2, but are switching to MPEG-4 in 2009.

 

[Scouzer]

There's less than a dozen OTA broadcasters in ALL OF CANADA 🙁

If I subbed to HD with cable I'd get a meager 27 channels

 

[The Boston Dangler]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
well thats over the air broadcast.
as for cable, are they sending h264 or mpeg4 over their wires?
u'd think they'd move towards upgrading their system to h264 to decrease bandwidth use/increase quality..

the industry uses mpeg2. if there are h264/mpeg4 capable boxes, they are brand new. it's unlikely they are a drop-in replacement, too.

 

[Alone]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
well thats over the air broadcast.
as for cable, are they sending h264 or mpeg4 over their wires?
u'd think they'd move towards upgrading their system to h264 to decrease bandwidth use/increase quality..

Didn't they just find a way to support h264 in a cheaper way like two years ago? It's probably going to take a while to properly implement it.