Yeah. Comcast's CEO claims that they don't compress... Anyone could make that claim and be truthful. But what they don't tell you is that they are getting it at whatever bitrate they request via sat-uplink. More? Their system can only support a certain number of channels at full HD and SD resolutions. In my region, they have surpassed that number by a factor of two. How does one put a size 12 shoe in a size six box?
Squeeze hard.
And I concur with Phoenix on the (coulda/shoulda) single sat with spot-casting... But it would have been a damned big bird with more transponders than any of us have seen.
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Rick Raymo @ Sep 21st 2006 1:26AM
Yeah. Comcast's CEO claims that they don't compress... Anyone could make that claim and be truthful. But what they don't tell you is that they are getting it at whatever bitrate they request via sat-uplink.
More? Their system can only support a certain number of channels at full HD and SD resolutions.
In my region, they have surpassed that number by a factor of two.
How does one put a size 12 shoe in a size six box?
Squeeze hard.
And I concur with Phoenix on the (coulda/shoulda) single sat with spot-casting... But it would have been a damned big bird with more transponders than any of us have seen.