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Directv is switching to MPEG4 to serve more HD content with less satellites.

If Voom survives, this will be how they keep all their content even with the loss of Rainbow 1. Every box Voom has shipped is upgradable to MPEG4, and already March 1 saw the switchover to a new encoder on their end that does both MPEG2 and 4. Their upgrade policy was one reason I considered them over the competition. Once the PVR comes out, all their existing boxes will network to it, and be able to stream recorded or live shows via ethernet or Cat-5.