[mythtv-users] fire tv stick for 19.99

[Patrick Ouellette]

On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 04:47:20PM +0000, Gary Buhrmaster wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 12:03 PM, Gary Buhrmaster
> <gary.buhrmaster at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 10:53 AM, Tom Bongiorno <tbjr at bongohut.com> wrote:
> > .....
> >> Or we will get lucky and the cables cos will phase out MPEG2. We can only
> >> dream.
> >
> > It will happen.  Eventually.
> 
> Probably worth it to note that the US OTA ATSC
> (not ATSC itself, the US standard) requires MPEG-2.
> There are some that would like to extend that
> (actually, last I recall, skipping H.264 and moving
> to H.265), but backward compatibility with existing
> TVs in millions of homes that cannot do H.26x,
> and a viable transition plan (no one in the US wants
> another flag day as occurred with the digital
> transition) means it is some ways off.  So MPEG-2
> is with US for a meaningful number of households.

Actually the ATSC spec was expanded in 2008 to include H.264.
ATSC Standard A/72 part1:2008

I suspect the issue with implementing it is all the people who had
just recently swapped out sets for MPEG2 only capable devices.
The above standard makes a reference to this in the introduction.

Pat