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Comcast Compressing HDTV Signals to Fit Three Shows into Two Shows' Bandwidth

Comcast has begun compressing HDTV shows in order to deliver more HD channels to you while using the same amount of bandwidth. They didn't use to do this before, but now, when compared to Verizon FiOS, the channels are grainy and blocky and full of artifacts—a result of shoving three channels into a space where only two previously occupied. A guy at AVSForum measured how the new bitrate stacks up against Verizon. More »

2:45 PM on Mon Mar 31 2008
By Jason Chen
21,940 views, 82 comments

Latest by Mrbungleface: @tekmiester: on top of the ten others i can think off hand why does comcast have to suck so much for real... i hate those guys... yet... im still paying them money!!! WHY GOD WHY!!!!!!!! more »

peripherals

ADS InstantVideo To-Go Accelerates iPod and PSP Video Encoding

ADS announced InstantVideo To-Go, a nifty little $79.95 widget that supercharges compression of video into that oh-so-sweet H.264 format. The company calls it the first hardware-based H.264 conversion device for PCs. This little USB key is a video transfer accelerator that lets you convert any video into that butta-smooth format specifically for playback on an iPod or PSP, and lets you accomplish that feat five times faster than real time. More »

8:43 AM on Mon Nov 20 2006
By Charlie White
1,222 views, 10 comments

home entertainment

Apple Lossless On the Way to iTunes?

Although some of us here at Gizmodo are near-deaf from spending way too much time in musical environments exceeding 130dB, we're still happy to hear the rumor that Apple will soon distribute tracks compressed in its Apple Lossless compression format on the iTunes Music Store. More »

1:22 PM on Fri Jun 23 2006
By Charlie White
768 views, 13 comments