MPEG4 Receiver swap starts October 23rd 2011, Read Post 1.

[JoeLouie]

reidw, what do you mean about "no immediate paybacks to the viewer"? Pretty much all of the things that 57 listed all seem to be in the viewers favour. Are you telling me that you don't want double the HD recording space on your PVR? or better picture quality, or more channels?

[Pinza]

Bell TV have added lots of new HD Channels since the MEG4 swap and continue to do so. They have added dozens of new SD channels (not sure why they are adding all the community ones but hey, that is their choice) and again, more are planned.

I was never a huge fan of the PQ just before the swap and now, well, I think it is much improved. Even very large Corporate Bell Customers that I interact with are commenting on the PQ. They never did before, they had just given up and accepted the 'soft' image. It as made my job somewhat easier, as now when I arrive on site, lets say at a customer with literally hundreds of TV's, we talk about the actual problem they are experiencing NOT the PQ, this is a huge step forward in my book.

[JAY-DEE]

There has been some "breaking news" on HEVC possibly improving on MPEG4. I assume that the private company mentioned is actually part of the MPEG improvement process. It's probably a long way to go before reaching the satellite TV consumer.

I found information on Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Ef...y_Video_Coding (note 25).

News January 25, 2013

NGCodec™ congratulates the Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding (JCT-VC) on the approval of the new HEVC / H.265 video compression standard

Oliver Gunasekara January 25, 2013

[Pinza]

Sorry but this has nothing to do with Bell and MPEG4, there must be a much more appropriate thread to post this in.

[nothanksrogers]

Are there any more SD channels on Nimiq 4?

I remember a decade ago because Fairchild we had to do the oval dish upgrade as the channel was being moved to Nimiq 2. Its fuzzy but I think the multicultural, HD, movie channels moved over probably to keep the number of people affected.

Don't even remember they stopped printing that hardware upgrade required to view some channels on the brochures.

[Pinza]

Bell have HD Channels on 91 and SD on 82, they do not keep them separated as they used to do.

Yes there was a massive "Free Upgrade" program several years ago when some Chinese Channels were moved over to 82, then yet more were done when the Horse Racing Channels moved.

Now when a new installation is done, it is almost always done with a DPP Twin or Quad LNBF, these LNBF's get signals from 91 & 82 so they are future-proof, well until Bell add a 3rd orbital slot anyway.

[MCIBUS]

But isn't 72.5 a Bell slot? I know presently they leased it to Dish?

[Pinza]

Yes, what was your point.?

[MCIBUS]

Just pointing out the 3rd spot.not sure why they never used it though?

[Pinza]

Maybe they figured they had enough bandwidth with MPEG4.

[monkeyhunk]

You know its funny you mentioned 72. I remember a number of MPEG swaps I did where for some reason the customers receivers check switched 72 .5 and unknown satellite. I even had one that was pointed at 110 and 119. In all the cases they said they'd never had any problems. They were indeed Bell receivers and smartcards. At least they were labeled Bell. I did have a warranty call once for no signal where the install had been done a couple days before......extremely sloppy install btw......and it was pointed at 82 and 72.

[nothanksrogers]

They still have HD channels on 91 even after the MPEG4 upgrade? Weird.

[Pinza]

Actually the very first MPEG4 HD Channels were put on 91 and there would appear to be no reason to move them. If you have HD Reception from 82 you will also have 91 signals so it does not matter to the receiver where they are.