Recent content by Darin

If he needs 30 screens, he could always get a 4 way splitter, then cascade four 8 way splitters off of that.

:confused: Just because it's not a DirecTiVo it can't have a simple always on no questions asked dual live buffer? DirecTV is just about the only provider who's DVRs don't currently have dual live buffers. No one else seemed to have trouble replicating that functionality. Is there something...

What issues did you have that were related to DLB? I never really had any issues with my DTiVos, much less any I could attribute to DLB. It always worked fine on hardware that is now a 10 year old design, on hard drives that had a fraction of the bandwidth of current hard drives. I have to...

Sure it does. It is true that not all de-interlacers are created equal, and there are some that don't do it correctly. But those that do do it correctly can perfectly re-construct progressive frames from film based material that has previously gone through a proper 3:2 telecine process. For...

One Billion channels!!!

Who already announced the same thing a few days ago. It makes sense for (both of) them to do it with PPV titles, because it saves bandwidth, removes any concerns of incorrect reverse telecine results, and gives them a nice buzzword that people will equate to a higher end product. But you can't...

I don't understand why everyone is so up in arms over bandwidth. Progressive takes slightly less bandwidth than interlaced.

So we should do something to get into a new commitment in March? ;-)

From the MPEG4 press release:

I don't really see what the big deal is. DirecTV has licenses for all the Ka frequencies at 99°, 101°, and 103°. Whether the utilize those with one or two satellits per slot sholdn't be a big deal. Sounds to me like they simply filed for approval to operate DirecTV-10 & 11 under the wrong...

Your DVD player might have a DD5.1 logo on it. That doesn't mean that every DVD you play is going to be in 5.1.

Yes, and Dish also has some Ka licenses they haven't yet utilized. They just haven't been very vocal about what their plans are.

It's actually very difficult to come to a bitrate comparison between Voom and DirecTV, because we have no way to extract video from Voom's service to find out now much net bitrate is allocated to the content. Some of the data available to the satellite providers is used for overhead, things...

And how much downrezzing has Voom done? I disagree. That is correct. And if Voom has any concept of preserving PQ in reduced bandwidth situations (which they are currently in), they are doing the same. If not, then you guys probably have some artifacting issues. DirecTV DOES send out...

That is incorrect. Based on bit rates, Voom is the worst, DirecTV is in the middle, and Dish has the most bandwidth/HD channel. If you look at the three movie channels that share one transponder on DirecTV, those three channels may have less average bitrate than Voom's average bitrate between...