23 Jan
2003
23 Jan
'03
3:46 a.m.
The first MPEG-4 HD set top boxes are beginning to appear
http://www.sigmadesigns.com/news/press_releases/030108.htm
Watch this space....
If you read the document carefully, you´ll figure that they support MPEG2 HDTV (1920x1080) and MPEG4 SDTV (640x480/720x576), which was my point earlier. So they are little less than two cycles of Moore´s law away from MPEG4 HDTV. That would put it three years away but if the market is there, we´ll probably see it earlier. SDTV video-over-ip services should take off first though or we´ll end up with peer2peer set top boxes sharing premium channel services over broadband networks. Pete