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Originally Posted by Blue_MiSfit
Dish Network can't be broadcasting entirely H.264! My parents still have a receiver from at least 6 years ago that works perfectly. It's definitely MPEG-2 only!
I know they plan to broadcast H.264 in the future, or maybe they're only doing it for HD feeds? I wonder how these companies address legacy receivers.
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I don't know about Dish, but in the case of DirecTV, they initially were MPEG2 for everything (after an early MPEG1 phase!) including HD. Then they phased in the AVC HD channels. They required subscribers wanting HD to upgrade their receivers. For a short interim period you could still receive some HD channels in MPEG2 but they were eventually all converted to AVC.
I have an old MPEG2 only HD DirecTV box that I had to eat.