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BET programming goes HD

article published on 21 April, 2009

BET (Black Entertainment Television) has announced that they have begun using Motorola's MPEG-4 AVC encoding system to deliver their broadcasts in HD. The programming will be distributed via satellite using Motorola's SE-5100 HD video encoder. The network decided to use MPEG-4 instead of MPEG-2 as it would save satellite bandwidth. All affiliates will receive the content using Motorola's ... [ read the full article ]

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nintenut
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_ 		21. April 2009 @ 19:47 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Of course it's late to the HD party.

(That was a joke, of course.)
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Azuran
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_ 		22. April 2009 @ 01:03 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by nintenut:
 Of course it's late to the HD party.

(That was a joke, of course.)
LOL
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hendrix04
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_ 		22. April 2009 @ 08:33 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I don't know why all providers would get the signal in mpeg-4 then convert it to mpeg-2... Sat providers (especially Dish network since they are already broadcasting BET in HD)provide an mpeg-4 signal to their customers. Seems like it would be a long way around to go mpeg-4 to mpeg-2 back to mpeg-4...
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gallagher
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_ 		22. April 2009 @ 09:13 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
TV's take MPEG-2. So unless you have a box, you cannot get the MPEG-4.
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hendrix04
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_ 		22. April 2009 @ 13:13 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Originally posted by gallagher:
 TV's take MPEG-2. So unless you have a box, you cannot get the MPEG-4.
Of course, but the article said that all providers will use the Motorola DSR-6050 to convert it Mpeg-2. I was just saying that not all providers would do this. It seems they have edited the article since I made my comment though.
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