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USDTV boxes will survive switch to MPEG-4

April 22nd, 2006

The USDTV pay-TV service is switching to MPEG-4, as we mentioned earlier.

But subscribers won’t need new receivers, it turns out. As Doug Lung informs us, USDTV engineers have designed a converter that connects to the USB port on existing set-top boxes. Video quality is not compromised, according to USDTV.

• Link: TV Technology

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