Originally Posted by
homer985
The problem isn't with future devices and their abilities -- sure, they may be able to do all kinds of great things. The problem is with the 28 million current legacy receivers -- which will easily eclipse 30 million before we know it. Those are stuck in the past. You can't make those obsolete.
Improvements in compression technology will only do so much, before improvements and changes in the receiver will have to be made. Any future changes to programming and technology must be backwards combatible to those legacy receivers. That is where the problem lies.
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