Just for me the understand the new DirecTV HD DVR receiver...

[pintnight]

that does MPEG-4 that I have been reading about all year long and it looks like it's now availble. Is that model the H20?

If so, I think I need to get on the band wagon since December 8 is when Dallas will get activated.

 

[shadyB]

The H-20 is not a DVR. There is currently no HD-DVR available that can decode an MPEG-4 datastream. An HD-DVR with MPEG-4 capability is supposed to be available in the first quarter of 2006.

 

[dfergie]

As Stated above the H20 is the replacement for the Current non Dvr HD Direct branded Receiver.

 

[hdtvtechno]

model # for the new DVR will be Directv HR20-250 Mpeg 4 DVR

 

[milfab]

model # for the new DVR will be Directv HR20-250 Mpeg 4 DVR

Looking at the name I guess the hdd in the box will be 250GB. Do you think that the recording capacity of mpeg4 programms will be increased (in terms of the number of hours) compared to mpeg2? If yes, how much?

 

[hdtvtechno]

Looking at the name I guess the hdd in the box will be 250GB. Do you think that the recording capacity of mpeg4 programms will be increased (in terms of the number of hours) compared to mpeg2? If yes, how much?

I'll leave that question to the pros.

 

[f300v10]

Looking at the name I guess the hdd in the box will be 250GB. Do you think that the recording capacity of mpeg4 programms will be increased (in terms of the number of hours) compared to mpeg2? If yes, how much?

MPEG4 can use 1/2 the bandwidth of MPEG2. However it is up to D* how much they compress it. I have not seen any data on the bitrates for the local HD MPEG4 streams, so I don't think anyone outside of D* knows what the bitrate is. But I think you can expect between a 30 to 50% increase in record time for MPEG4 channels.

 

[Scott R. Scherr]

If it has a 250GB hard drive, how much of that will be used by D* for PPV On-Demand?

Scott