[mythtv-users] Hauppauge HD-PVR: Photos and link to pre-order

[Brad DerManouelian]

Craig Treleaven wrote:
> Am I the only one finding the gaga excitement about this device 
> rather premature?  Unless I've missed it, we have no objective 
> evidence of how well it works.  1080i is 1920 X 1080 pixels, 30 times 
> a second.  At 3 bytes per pixel, that is 186,624000 bytes per second. 
> (720P has about 11% less.)  Good quality H.264 is usually done in two 
> passes and even high end PC's take several times live to give a 
> tightly compressed, good quality result.
> 
> They say their $250 device encodes in real time.  Does the quality 
> suck or the compression?  Or both?  Are they throwing away 3/4 of the 
> pixels from the start to get the data rate down to something the 
> device can keep up with?  Do they have to take shortcuts with the 
> compression meaning that we'll be burning hard drive space faster 
> than Paris Hilton goes through personal lubricant?

Link to sample video for those of us who were so interested in posting 
to the thread, but not willing to read the original thread it came from:
ftp://ftp.shspvr.com/download/moive_clip/hd_pvr_clip/hcw_hd_pvr2_1080i_h264.ts