[mythtv-users] hdhr3-us h.264

[Nick Rout]

On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 6:26 PM, John Morris <jmorris at beau.org> wrote:

>
> >         These days, for new service roll-outs, as Karl pointed out,
> >         there is no compelling reason to do so.  However, legacy
> >         issues (equipment or standards) may require MPEG-2
> >         (The US ATSC transmission standard, for example,
> >         specifies MPEG-2).
> >
> > Not according to this
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atsc#H.264.2FMPEG-4_AVC
>
> Yea, they allow it now.  In an update ratified in 2008.  Care to guess
> when/if most sets being sold support it, better guess how many sets are
> in the field with only mpeg2 hardware?  Now consider that over the air
> viewers aren't the most likely to chase the upgrade treadmill.  Now you
> can make an educated guess when the first US broadcaster will feel brave
> enough to send out an h.264 stream and withstand the meltdown of their
> switchboard from irate viewers.  And now you know the difference between
> standards on paper and defacto standards in deployment.
>
> Someday we will see secondary programs sent out in h.264 to cram a few
> more in, still wouldn't put a lot of money on it happening this decade
> though.
>
>
One of the advantages of being in a market that adopted digital TV a little
"late" I guess is that we didn't get stuck with mpeg2 - Terrestrial
Freeview in NZ started on h.264 so we don't have the problem of a lot of
people stuck with DVB-T boxes that support only mpeg2. Now practically
every TV you buy has support for DVB-T and h.264 built in, as well as the
STBs for people who bought before it all rolled out.

But I do see the problem with rolling out a change in technology in an
established market.

They are turning off analogue here in the next year or so, the advertising
is on TV, newspapers, the back of buses, billboards...

Unfortunately for us non-lovers of Rupert M, there is still a large
perception that SkyTV is the only alternative :( Interesting times ahead,
although I have my digital sorted thanks!



>
> _______________________________________________
> mythtv-users mailing list
> mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> http://www.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://www.mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/attachments/20130111/b4ae37fa/attachment.html>