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DirecTV will not get rid of OTA ATSC tuners for HD receivers any time soon. BTW, there is one asnwer that Dish came up with: Allow Dish to down-rez OTA HD channels (refer to another thread). :p Hong.

"Spill checked"? :p Sorry, I couldn't resist... :) Hong.

I wonder if it has the High Profile (a.k.a., FrExt) support... Anyway, it's a great news. Hong.

MPEG-4 HP (for HD) will require more than just a software update. Hong.

If everything you want to show is already pre-encoded in MPEG-4 HP, then fine. However, a lot of HD materials are already in MEPG-2 or some other less-compressing formats. You can argue that they could all convert those into MPEG-4 HP beforehand. Sure, they could. But it takes time and...

At the moment, there is no silicon version of MPEG-4 HP decoder (nor VC-1 for that matter), so anything that is coming out "soon" would not have the capability. It may, however, have an extension mechanism (e.g., daughter boards) for later. And I meant "having a plan" as having a plan to do...

Every satellite provider has plans for MPEG-4 (ML for SD and HP for HD). They cannot afford not to given the strapped bandwidth they have. It's just that there is no stable equipment, if at all, for realtime MPEG-4 HP encoding at the moment. I guess those encoder companies have plans to...

I think Scott went about too "official"-looking a route about this. :) Maybe, if it were just a rumor-from-his-contact-at-Echostar kind of thing, maybe we could have gotten more answers, albeit rumored ones. :p Hong.

jsanders, Just look up a bit in my previous post in the previous page. I did include the link www.wmvhd.com which states the minimum requirement for WMV9 HD. That was what I meant by "developer" (Microsoft being the developer of WMV9). I have a suspicion that it may not satisfy your...

> Why is an MPEG decode different from SD and HD other than the size of the resulting frame? They both have an incoming stream of bits that get descrambled and double checked. I suspect they both have i-frames and p-frames. I suspect they both do the same transform to move the energy to the...

MPEG-4 High Profile is "much more" expensive to decode than MPEG-2. The supposedly "faster" WMV9 HD requires 2.4 GHz with 384 MB (720p) or 3.0 GHz with 512 MB (1080p) (according to Microsoft at www.wmvhd.com). EDIT: Also, AFAIK, there is no real-time MPEG-4 High Profile HD encoder at the...

Except that... In the Echostar's conference call, Ergen said there is no room for a new HD channel until a new bird is up. It could be that UHD was already counted in, but who knows... Hong.

MPEG-4 for HD first makes sense because of the size of the boxes out there. However, MPEG-4 realtime encoders for HD is (apparently) a year away, so nobody can do anything about it. By the time a realtime MPEG-4 HD encoder is available, every satellite provider (including Echostar, DirecTV and...

> there's field-programmable ASICs, right? Someone could make a processor in ASIC and have some firmware to run on it, but first of all, for cost-effective devices as these, I doubt they would have done that, and secondly, unless those ASICs were designed for the computing requirements for...

> Polish > Arab > German > Italian Interesting. So, their market is bigger than Indian? If DirecTV got the Indian channels, well, actually cricket matches, most people in my area don't have to stay with Dish... :) Hong.