[BC] TV Standards

[Robert Orban]

At 10:23 AM 10/20/2005, you wrote:
>rom: Robert Meuser <Robertm at broadcast.net>
>Subject: Re: [BC] TV Standards
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>The 5th generation chip makes a massive difference. I don't know if it would
>solve your problem, put I get pretty bad UHF reception on my indoor 
>antenna but
>the DTV is perfect.
>
>R
>
>Robert Orban wrote:
> > At 05:49 PM 10/18/2005, you wrote:
> >
>
> > There are a lot of east/west-going canyons on the SF peninsula, and
> > people in the valleys get major shadowing of the SF TX sites. Cable is a
> > must in those locations. Comcast in my area has an HD tier but doesn't
> > carry UPN or The WB, just ABC, NBC, CBS, and Fox. So, at the moment, I
> > am waiting for DirecTV to finally get its act together with HD locals,
> > and hope that they carry all of the networks, and also that their MPEG4
> > re-encoding doesn't compromise picture quality too much. (No one at
> > DirecTV seems to be willing to talk about which flavor of MPEG4 they
> > will be using; hopefully it will be AVC.)

I just got verification that the new DirecTV MPEG4 high definition channels 
will use AVC (aka H.264 aka MPEG4 Part 10).