TiVo & Cable’s Inevitable MPEG4 Transition

[dfergie]

Dave Zatz

In October 2014, Comcast will transition its system in Augusta, Georgia, from MPEG2 format to MPEG4. This transition means that cable channels in this region will not be viewable on older equipment that is incompatible with the new format.

Roamio and Premiere units are ready to tune – having already cut their teeth on smaller scale channel conversions on Cox and FiOS. Unfortunately, TiVo Stream and Roamio Pro/Plus transcoding won't be ready until 2015.

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[harshness]

Watch the bottom fall out of the MPEG2 TiVo resale market. Lifetime just got a whole lot shorter.

 

[mike123abc]

Watch the bottom fall out of the MPEG2 TiVo resale market. Lifetime just got a whole lot shorter.

Not really. I think most that want the MPEG2 TiVos want them for OTA. Now if OTA changes to MPEG4 then there will be an issue. Right now a used TiVo HD or Series 3 with Lifetime is a great OTA cord cutting box, considering you can pick them up for $200 or so.

 

[harshness]

There is a fairly large class of TiVo Premieres that can't do OTA as I recall.

 

[navychop]

There is a fairly large class of TiVo Premieres that can't do OTA as I recall.

And OTA may be dying.


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