said by jameswade:said by djrobx :
Karl, why are you assuming that this is even going to happen?
The U-verse set tops are not very powerful. They simply don't have the hardware needed to recompress the stream to something internet streamworthy on the fly.
Matt said -They don't need to. The stream is already MPEG-4 so all they need to do is lower the bitrate.
said by Matt:said by jameswade:James Wilson said - In today's technology, that's a recompress...
What is? It helps if you quote what you're replying to.
No recompression is required, the streaming bitrate can be lowered on the fly.