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donoreo
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Bell Satellite flip to MPEG4 done (sort of OT)

Just the other day our receiver got an update to a new menu system, etc. Also anything recorded after November 21 will take less space on the PVR (stronger compression).

Just wanted to let others know.

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Pretty sure this isn't the full transition, it's just a few of the HD channels in addition to a bunch of the MPEG4 Ethnic SDs they already have. They still have a whole shitload of MPEG2 up there in the sky.

Guspaz
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Do older ExpressVu devices even support MPEG-4?

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Nope, but last I heard they were swapping out all the old HD receivers for MPEG4-capable ones. Plenty of SD stuff out there that won't do MPEG4 still.
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New menus but 9242's are still slow to tune channels.

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They better be swapping it out for free and giving ownership of the new terminals to the customers. My parents had to buy their terminals.

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said by Guspaz:

They better be swapping it out for free and giving ownership of the new terminals to the customers. My parents had to buy their terminals.

We swapped out the ones at the cottage in September. They were free. You had to be quick, they deactivated the old ones 4 weeks after the new ones were sent.
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Nope, but last I heard they were swapping out all the old HD receivers for MPEG4-capable ones. Plenty of SD stuff out there that won't do MPEG4 still.

They have run at least two promos if not three by now where they were swapping old SD and HD receivers for newer receivers.
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said by donoreo:

Just the other day our receiver got an update to a new menu system, etc. Also anything recorded after November 21 will take less space on the PVR (stronger compression).

Just wanted to let others know.

Also this is MPEG-4 AVC AKA H.264.

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Just in time to be rendered obsolete by HEVC/h.265! :P

h.265 is claiming (in benchmarks) some pretty substantial savings. 35% less bitrate than h.264 for the same PSNR, or 70% less bitrate than MPEG-2. Of course, PSNR isn't a measurement of subjective quality, but it definitely shows a marked improvement.