PatE
5th September 2005, 23:27
Hello. I´m from Germany (please excuse my bad english / grammer ).
Last weekend, I was at the IFA (http://www1.messe-berlin.de/vip8_1/website/MesseBerlin/htdocs/www.ifa-berlin.de/fset_content_e.html?url=http://www1.messe-berlin.de/vip8_1/website/MesseBerlin/htdocs/www.ifa-berlin.de/en/Messeinfos/Profil/Kurzbeschreibung/index.html)
and I spoke with several people about the new technology presented there and so on. When I was at the place from "Premiere" (a german Pay-TV provider), I asked the "technical involved" person how there plans will be with their HDTV.
He told me, they are planing to transmit their HDTV via Satellit not as an MPEG2-Stream, but as an MPEG-4 - Stream. It was very suprising for me, also when this guy told me, they got really trouble finding a hardware-producer beeing able to merge the ability to playback the "normal" MPEG2-Streams and the MPEG-4 Streams.
The reason, why they planed this way was, that this will allow to broadcast more streams over one signal with the same quality (at lower bitrates) as like the MPEG2...
Last weekend, I was at the IFA (http://www1.messe-berlin.de/vip8_1/website/MesseBerlin/htdocs/www.ifa-berlin.de/fset_content_e.html?url=http://www1.messe-berlin.de/vip8_1/website/MesseBerlin/htdocs/www.ifa-berlin.de/en/Messeinfos/Profil/Kurzbeschreibung/index.html)
and I spoke with several people about the new technology presented there and so on. When I was at the place from "Premiere" (a german Pay-TV provider), I asked the "technical involved" person how there plans will be with their HDTV.
He told me, they are planing to transmit their HDTV via Satellit not as an MPEG2-Stream, but as an MPEG-4 - Stream. It was very suprising for me, also when this guy told me, they got really trouble finding a hardware-producer beeing able to merge the ability to playback the "normal" MPEG2-Streams and the MPEG-4 Streams.
The reason, why they planed this way was, that this will allow to broadcast more streams over one signal with the same quality (at lower bitrates) as like the MPEG2...