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MP4 and FTA
You need only read the Chinese newspapers to see the future...ok, well not read but look at the pictures. IPTV boxes are already for sale in the Chinese ethnic community in the US offering live TV from China at a very competitive rate. Hong Kong has had IPTV for over a year now, and the biggest news is satellites is not Dish or Direct, but the upcoming shift from MPEG2 to MPEG4. With the compression of MP4, the price of sending a signal upto a satellite (or sending it over the net) will be brought down considerably, and we'll start to see more and more stations from around the world competing here in the US. I have an FTA dish which is great for watching the latest from Iraq and a few other places, but also offers the Kremlin propaganda channel "Russia Today" in English which is actually quite interesting. Every minute I watch something like that is a minute I'm not watching CNN. And when I can do this all on my computer? Forget about it... There are responses to this message:
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