28 Mar
2005
28 Mar
'05
1:21 p.m.
On Mon, Mar 28, 2005 at 02:12:39PM +0100, Gavin Hamill wrote:
On Monday 28 March 2005 14:06, Reinhard Walter Buchner wrote:
At the current stage of development, I never understood why mpeg4 is still around. CDs and DVDs are so cheap nowadays, there is no reason to give up quality for size.
You ask the financial department of the broadcasters :) If they can get away with paying for half the transponder capacity by broadcasting in MPEG4 instead of MPEG2 I think they will have a strong case =)
EURO1080 is already going this direction: http://www.euro1080.tv/mpeg4.htm
Michael