#NAB News
Something I don't really understand.. perhaps somebody can clear me up.
MPEG will deliver 74 minutes of Video/Audio on a 650MB CD.
MPEG-2 will deliver 17 minutes of Video/Audio on a 650MB CD.
Commericial satellite distribution is currently racing twoard MPEG 1 and
soon hope to go to MPEG-2. The one reason that the satelitte industry is
going MPEG is that they can get about 5 channels on a single transponder
with this new format–it wasn't for higher quality video, in fact, it is
probably lower quality at MPEG 1 than what is available with normal C band
distribution.
My question is why did NewTek decide to go on their own and create a new
format that gets 6 minutes per Gigabyte? I grant that MPEG is not D2
quality.. but how about MPEG 2?
Perhaps somebody who is in the know would educate as to why I should be
excited about the Newtek annoucement?
I am sure there is something I don't know on this. Educate me!