[mythtv-users] The Death of MythTV in the US?

[Phil Bridges]

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 11:04 PM, jedi <jedi at mishnet.org> wrote:
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> On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 10:48:28PM -0400, Phil Bridges wrote:
>  > On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 10:27 PM, jedi <jedi at mishnet.org> wrote:
>  > >
>  > > On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 10:16:22PM -0400, Phil Bridges wrote:
>  > >  > On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 10:05 PM, jedi <jedi at mishnet.org> wrote:
>  > >  > >
>  > >  > >     Even if Good Eats and Scooby Doo were available in genuine HD, I am not
>  > >  > >  sure I would care to spend 7-9GB per hour on either. The same goes for old
>  > >  > >  movies that have been mutilated and most new stuff.
>  > >  > >
>  > >  >
>  > >  > Two corrections:
>  > >  >
>  > >  > (1) Good Eats is available in genuine HD.
>  > >
>  > >     Are you sure about that? I've seen stuff that I know can't have
>  > >  been produced in HD coming over at 720p or 1080p. Then it compresses
>  > >  down to what an SD transmission would.
>  > >
>  > >
>  > >  > (2) It records at less than 6 GB per hour for me from my cable box.
>  > >
>  > >     That's still 10 times as much storage for no real added value.
>  > >
>  > >  [deletia]
>  > >
>  >
>  > Yes, I'm sure.  They're only showing the newer episodes on FoodHD
>  > because they've been recorded in HD.
>  >
>  > I'd like to know how you're recording an episode of Good Eats that totals 300MB.
>
>     Transcoding.
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>     It's like old school Tivo but without quite so much quality loss.
>
>     Cartoons are especially suitable for agressive transcoding.
>

Well, then, you're not really comparing apples to apples.  HD video
can be transcoded, too - in fact, i'm sure that if you want to, you
could transcode a 1 hour 1080i HD file down to 300MB.