[mythtv-users] Comcast mpeg4 switching to 720p

[Jon Heizer]

On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 3:35 PM, Gary Buhrmaster <gary.buhrmaster at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 8:24 PM, Jon Heizer <jheizer at gmail.com> wrote:
> ......
> > After I hit send thought.  Those of us getting all progressive content
> won't
> > have to care about having machines with powerful deinterlacer abilities
> > anymore.  Makes NUCs and RPis seem much better.
>
> As long as you do not watch any local OTA rebroadcasts.
>
> Comcast does the cable channel transcoding centrally (CO?)
> and at least at this point has not consistently either backhauled
> the local OTAs (for central transcoding), or pushed the newer
> transcoder hardware and/or profiles out to the regions.
>
>
In my case all the local channels merged companies and are only now
broadcasting 720p so they can shove 3 sub channels on one OTA channel.

Jon
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