Harmonic Video Infrastructure Powers Airtel Digital TV's Enhanced DTH HD Offerings

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Sarkar said:
I am sure it has already been done. Bcoz article said Airtel has deployed, it doesn't said Airtel will deploy :k

So everything is in airtel's end not in customers end. For customers just tune HD and watch it :ohya

Powered by the Harmonic PURE Compression Engine™, the Electra X2 media processors support a wide range of video formats and codecs for satellite delivery, including HEVC, simplifying operations and future upgrades for Bharti Airtel.
 
I mean superior quality SD channels HD like quality, wen it will come to effect.
 
Optimus_Prime said:
I don't think Airtel will compress their SD channels.
think once, if they compress SD channels like &TV what will happend then? there is so much pixelated picture quality on &Tv. yakkk

Bang Onn. This is one of the reasons why I chose Tata sky as my 2nd DTH connection only to watch this channel in supiriour quality.
 
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adtv soon may add remaining hd channels in hevc format to save bandwidth.. hevc hd channel require 50% space that required by mpeg4 hd
 
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