[mythtv-users] mythtv-users Digest, Vol 44, Issue 111

[Mark A. Hoover]

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>> I guess I did leave that off, didn't I?  We're primarily SD for
>> television, and HD (well as HD as you can get) for watching DVD's
>> (soon
>> to be served by MythVideo).
>
> DVDs are definitely *not* HD. Even if you have some method of
> upconverting the output the mpeg stream is not HD to start with. You
> would have to go to Blu-Ray or HD-DVD to get real HD, and I think
> most of us will wait for the Format Wars to be settled before we make
> that jump.

I guess the question is how much horsepower is really needed to drive 
Mythtv at HD resolutions?  Currently I don't have a HDTV or a 
Blu-ray/HD-Dvd player, however, eventually, I'll probably want to get one 
and not have to buy another frontend machine to handle it.