New Dishnetwork HD recievers

[millerman 3732]

Has anyone had any experience with these new recievers the ViP211 and the ViP622 I belive that they both have mpeg 4 compression, I currently have the dish 811 with mpeg 2 compession and I was thinking of upgrading to the 211 but I don't Know a whloe about mpegs is there alot of difference between mpeg 4 and mpeg 2.

[thehaens@cox.net]

I thought MPEG 4 was just more compression to allow more content on a given bandwidth.....but apparently it is a lot more than that..

http://www.chiariglione.org/mpeg/standards/mpeg-4/mpeg-4.htm

DirecTV is supposed to be rolling out new boxes with this standard this summer, and including more of the Local Affiliate digital channels, looking forward to it..

[mark g. nelson]

I am getting one Fri. Dish will also be replacing my dish 500 for the new DiSH 1000 with 3 sat feeds. The new stuff should give me a total of 23 HD channels plus the locals are coming this year. I already have a rooftop for those but if you get your locals via sat. this will be great. Word is that 10 or more new HD channels are on tap for this year.MPEG 4 is the new standard not really sure how it all works. But with 2 HD TVs the more Channels I get the better.

[Frank Z]

I'm dreading the loss of my 921, but then again time marches on. The 622 will have two out puts, 1 HD and 1 SD. My 921 has dual HD outputs, although I'm only using one I really hate losing the flexability to run 2 HD sets. When the time comes to upgrade I'll bitch, piss, and moan to E* inorder to get the best deal possible.