spiney wrote:
that's probably right. Can't imagine them using the worse system, and
the HDTV announcement coincides with H264 avaialbility.

However, the newer compression is still statistical and you might
still need a whole multiplex to "guarantee" artifacts not occasionally
appearing!


H.264 uses different (improved) technologies to the those that MPEG-2
uses, so the gains are real, so you don't need to use 20 Mbps for an
HDTV channel using H.264.


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