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Originally Posted by mhatter67
I suppose Ben we are along way off for the SD channels being compressed to MPEG4 because there are a load of legacy SD only boxes out there I suppose?
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Lots of platforms still use MPEG2 for SD (even satellite at 28 degrees east which is used by Sky; I assume as you said at least partly due to SD legacy boxes). They only use MPEG4 for HD and its good to see VM are about to follow suit.
A lot of SD channels are already highly compressed with low resolutions and bitrates (which are obvious to see from how awful some look
). I'm not sure that there would be a significant reason for these to change anytime soon. You could say that if they use less space as a whole then each channel could have more space and look better, but we all know that's never going to happen.
