Comments on: Starz Align(s) for MPEG-4, and Switched Digital Video http://connectedhome2go.com/2008/06/03/starz-aligns-for-mpeg-4-and-switched-digital-video/ A Motorola Blog on Video, Voice, Data, Wireless and more! Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:31:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: AlanKS http://connectedhome2go.com/2008/06/03/starz-aligns-for-mpeg-4-and-switched-digital-video/#comment-6997 Mon, 08 Nov 2010 03:52:03 +0000 http://connectedhome2go.wordpress.com/?p=831#comment-6997 Acquire The Important Secrets and Techniques To Help Successfully Elevate Your Vertical Leap Over One Foot In just 90 Days Here!

]]> By: MPEG-4 Momentum « Media Experiences 2 Go http://connectedhome2go.com/2008/06/03/starz-aligns-for-mpeg-4-and-switched-digital-video/#comment-3244 Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:13:16 +0000 http://connectedhome2go.wordpress.com/?p=831#comment-3244 [...] MPEG-4 Momentum Posted on July 31, 2008 by Mari Silbey Amidst the stats in today’s Motorola earnings announcement is a note about continued uptake of MPEG-4. In the past quarter Motorola added several new MPEG-4 customers including DirecTV, HBO Latin America and Starz. [...]

]]> By: Using Switched Digital Video for the MPEG-4 Transition « Media Experiences 2 Go http://connectedhome2go.com/2008/06/03/starz-aligns-for-mpeg-4-and-switched-digital-video/#comment-3133 Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:15:00 +0000 http://connectedhome2go.wordpress.com/?p=831#comment-3133 [...] A couple of savvy folks picked up on my near-throw-away reference earlier this month to the idea of using switched digital video as a tool for transitioning to MPEG-4. The basic concept is that operators could selectively broadcast MPEG-4 programming by offering it [...]

]]> By: Mari Silbey http://connectedhome2go.com/2008/06/03/starz-aligns-for-mpeg-4-and-switched-digital-video/#comment-3113 Fri, 13 Jun 2008 20:52:03 +0000 http://connectedhome2go.wordpress.com/?p=831#comment-3113 Glenn- I believe it force-tunes to an MPEG-2 version. I’m diving into the full technical paper now and will do another post when I get through it.

]]> By: Glenn http://connectedhome2go.com/2008/06/03/starz-aligns-for-mpeg-4-and-switched-digital-video/#comment-3105 Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:56:26 +0000 http://connectedhome2go.wordpress.com/?p=831#comment-3105 Mari,

I’m not clear on how this would work. Okay, so some subset of the STBs in a neighbourhood are h.264 capable. And there’s some SDV channel that the MSO can send out in either MPEG-2 or h.264. If a single user with one of those h.264 STBs requests the channel, the MSO can send it out in h.264. Now imagine that somebody with an older STB requests the channel. What does the MSO do?

- Add an MPEG-2 version of the channel to the network, meaning we’re now using 1.5X the bandwidth for this one channel. Does standard SDV even support this state where there are two versions of the same channel?

- Force the h.264 consumers off the h.264 version of the channel onto the new MPEG-2 version. Does standard SDV even support this sort of thing?

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