Posted by GMAN on 01/17/86 11:51

In article <129s18r74odcia0@news.supernews.com>, Tim Smith <reply_in_group@mouse-potato.com> wrote:
>In article <bh9r921d6c7iqr3n7psu3svt4djo7eieb8@4ax.com>, Roy L Fuchs wrote:
>> Satellite broadcasts are EXACT feeds of the MPEG2 data stream of the
>> source, and the satellite transport stream is MPEG2 as well. You are
>> lost, fucker. You don't even know what layer you are on. You don't
>> even know what a layer is.
>
>Which satellite broadcasts are you talking about? DirectTV for example,
>takes the MPEG-2 HD feeds from from the networks, encrypts those and
>transmits them over fiber to their uplink facility, then converts them to
>MPEG-4, which is what the satellites transmit to the receivers.
>
Not true. Currently the HD signal on all but locals are send as MPEG2 as
broadcast. Only the spotbeam satellites that have been put recently into orbit
use mpeg4 and that is for locals only.

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