said by knarf829:You had me until your defense of OWN, which is a nothing vanity channel created to feed one large woman's equally massive ego. I'm glad we don't have it in HD.
Every channel is a vanity channel created to feed someone's massive ego.
My defense of OWN was in response to the hypocrisy of that post by guppy_fish.
Just be thankful that Oprah only has one network instead of seven like Byron Allen...
I will take OWN HD over Byron Allen's 7 .TV networks any day.
said by nowayout:Verizon has started muxing more channels at 3:1. They're not "compressing" the channels per se, but the channels they're pairing 3:1 were already being delivered at lower bitrates (12mbps), making the negative side-effects mostly negligible. Until this past year or so they were fitting them at 2:1 regardless. So this has given them more room to play with.
This is not true.
The bulk of the 12 Mbps networks are not being received like that.
Verizon is receiving MPEG-4 signals and instead of re-encoding them to MPEG-2 at 15+ Mbps they are now re-encoding them to MPEG-2 at 12 Mbps.
As most things Verizon receives now are MPEG-4 they are re-encoding just about everything. For some reason they also re-encode AXS.TV in most VHOs (Distributed as MPEG-2 @ 17 Mbps bitrate) to MPEG-2 again at the same bitrate, introducing additional compression artifacts for zero bandwidth savings. This makes little sense.