PhoenixDown
-- Wants FIOS
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join:2003-06-08
Fresh Meadows, NY
clubs:   | .... no thanks
I understand that everything is compressed at some point, but Windows Media 9? ... uh, ... okay
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trebzon
join:2001-09-03
Grandville, MI
 ·AT&T Yahoo
| said by PhoenixDown  :I understand that everything is compressed at some point, but Windows Media 9? ... uh, ... okay Although I am not a huge fan of this strategy either we should not give the impression that everyone will see the MS logo and have Windows Media Player all of sudden running on there wide screen HD tv but rather will be using the same codec. |
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Thaler
Premium
join:2004-02-02
Encino, CA
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No kidding, talk about technology running backwards.
Soon in the future, we'll all be running Atari 2400s!
I thought we always upgraded to the latest and the greatest, not ran with a "standard" that's a generation out-of-date. |
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Corvus
Flaming Tards Since 2003
Premium,VIP
join:2003-11-26
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said by PhoenixDown :I understand that everything is compressed at some point, but Windows Media 9? ... uh, ... okay Could be worse, remember Real Media codecs? 
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PhoenixDown
-- Wants FIOS
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join:2003-06-08
Fresh Meadows, NY
clubs: | reply to PhoenixDown
Out of curiousity, does anyone know how much loss thier is in these compression forms?
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Karl Bode
News Guy
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PC gaming GAMES
PC gaming Tech
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Also consider what they'll be competing against. Anyone who has used Time Warner's Scientific Atlanta digital cable unit and service knows that generally speaking with some exceptions, the image quality out there in the cable sector is not very high.....I think you could generally field crap and be competitive if it's marketed well. |
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Thaler
Premium
join:2004-02-02
Encino, CA
| said by Karl Bode :I think you could generally field crap and be competitive if it's marketed well. If current-day politics has taught me anything, it's that this philosophy is very much alive and well. |
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Zein
join:2003-06-14
Painesville, OH | reply to PhoenixDown
I am just still wondering what they are going to use ADSL2+ or VDSL2, and what speeds are we going to get? |
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batageek
Slave To The Duopoly
Premium
join:2003-01-25
2 edits | Words of wisdom from Kirk Brannock, SBC Midwest Networking President.
"we're going to offer 3 mb bpon technology to the side of the home and most users won't use that...."
FTTN because "Fiber is an unproven technology" perhaps?
Such vision for the future.....ack!
see the dialogue here -
»www.tricitybroadband.com/videos/unproven.wmv
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en102
Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA
 ·RoadRunner Cable
·DSL EXTREME
| reply to trebzon
Unless its $5/month for 200+ channels, I don't think so.
Also, being that its running Media Playe, I wonder if they'll have cookies on it to track which channels you are watching 
Let's see how 12 kHz audio sounds.... |
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djdanska
Premium,MVM
join:2001-04-21
Glen Ellyn, IL
clubs:
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·T-Mobile US
·A + Net
·Mediacom
·RCN CABLE
| reply to batageek
said by batageek :Words of wisdom from Kirk Brannock, SBC Midwest Networking President. "we're going to offer 3 mb bpon technology to the side of the home and most users won't use that...." FTTN because "Fiber is an unproven technology" perhaps? Such vision for the future.....ack! see the dialogue here - » www.tricitybroadband.com/videos/unproven.wmv OMFG!
"we're going to offer 3 mb bpon technology to the side of the home and most users won't use that...."
What are they ...
Im not even going to say it.
Thank you very much for posting that. That immediately was sent to numerous people.. One of them who lives in Batavia, IL.
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audiog
join:2004-08-09
Detroit, MI
1 edit | reply to trebzon
Yes I agree.
WMP 9/10(MPEG 3) are up for DVDHD certification as the file format for the next gen DVD players. The other format is Blueray( MPEG 4) backed by Sony and the other computer hardware manufacturers.
Half of the DVD governing body wants WMP 9(MPEG 3) format and the other wants MPEG 4 video and audio. This has caused the MPEG 4 backers to break from the DVD governing body and to form the Blueray group a independent governing group. Now the IEEE guys are trying to mend the breakup and now the Blueray group is considering supporting WMP 9 and MPEG 4 as file formats.
So WMP 9( MPEG 3) is a natural test bed for IP TV but they should be looking at MPEG 4 also.
MPEG 4 is 30% more coding power the MPEG 3.
This link will explain the difference between MPEG 4 and 3:
»www.telos-systems.com/?/techtalk···ault.htm |
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audiog
join:2004-08-09
Detroit, MI | reply to PhoenixDown
Look at my post above. MPEG 3( WMP 9/10) is not as good as the new MPEG 4 which is 30% more coding power. MPEG 4 makes MPEG 3 sound and look like MPEG 2. MPEG 4 is the first to pass some of the loss-less test. Very little phase shift. |
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pnosker
Premium
join:2003-03-26
Stockton, NJ
clubs:
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Er.... this link is Audio (Layers referring to audio layers). AAC is a competiting standard against MP3. mpEG4 and mpEG3 are not the same.
From Wikipedia:
MPEG-3: Originally designed for HDTV, but abandoned when it was discovered that MPEG-2 was sufficient for HDTV.
MPEG-4: Expands MPEG-1 to support video/audio "objects", 3D content, low bitrate encoding and support for Digital Rights Management. A new (newer than MPEG-2 Video) higher efficiency video codec is included (an alternative to MPEG-2 Video), see H.264.
»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mpeg explains it a little bit. |
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pcscdma
Chocobo Chocobo Random Battle
Premium
join:2004-01-14
Winterset, IA
clubs: | reply to PhoenixDown
I thought that WM9 is the best codec available.
It may be because it is from Micro$oft (OMG!! I uzed doller sine l0l!) and everything they make sucks by default. |
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Corvus
Flaming Tards Since 2003
Premium,VIP
join:2003-11-26
| reply to pnosker
pnosker is right, MPEG-3 doesn't exists.
Also, the Microsoft video codec is known as WM9 or VC-9 not WMP9 which refers to Windows Media Player 9.
Both MPEG-4 (H.264) and WM9 have been shown to achieve comparable quality to MPEG-2 at half the bit rate.
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ronpin
Imagine Reality
join:2002-12-06
Nirvana
·AT&T Southwest
2 edits | This thread say's it all
»www2.broadbandreports.com/forum/···ode=flat
SBC executives in San Antonio have been testing the carrier's IPTV service for 45 days or so. The service is being fed from Austin, where five local San Antonio channels are being fed from Echostar, compressed with Windows Media 9, and sent via optical link to SBC's San Antonio offices. More fleshed-out residential trials for IPTV will begin in April. Yeah, so they do see the benefit of fiber -- just not for their peasant fiefdom? 'Frick'n genuises have no frickin clue how their meager f2 copper pairs behave when wet -- even at low 5mbs speeds. Their ratty f2 copper pairs are gonna choke at 20mbs. What fools. "If you can't afford to do it right (FTTP) -- you sure as hell can't afford to do it over". This'll be one of those MBA case studies in corporate stupidity. Incredibly SBC can afford $16 BILLION for some corporate incest with a dying company like AT&T -- but they're upgrading their cash cow on-the-cheap in hopes that their customers are too stupid to know the difference. I can tolerate idiots, but not fools.
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agdam
join:2004-01-25
Glendale, CA
| reply to PhoenixDown
greed and stupidity
They are dumb to give up fiber.
They are even dumper doing it with microsoft.
Xvid codec is virtually royalty free and open source, and fully mpeg4 compliant.
Microsofts codecs are very expensive to use and lousy.
But who cares, you will pay for it. |
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Corvus
Flaming Tards Since 2003
Premium,VIP
join:2003-11-26
| Xvid? Oh please, this is not a serious codec. MPEG-4 is at least developed by serious groups (ITU's Video Coding Experts Group and ISO/IEC).
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peggypwr1
join:2003-10-06
Fremont, CA |  reply to PhoenixDown
Re: .... no thanks
The thing that pisses me off the most is when the article mentioned that SBC can prevent viewers from fast fowarding through commericals after recording to their DVRs. |
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