[mythtv-users] Recording Bitrates fpr PVR 350

Matt Mossholder matt at mossholder.com
Thu Dec 22 12:47:28 EST 2005


Just because one standards group decided that a group of people had
misused their standard after 20/30/40? years, and decided people should
change doesn't mean that we, as users have to listen.

Standards are only as good as peoples decisions to use them.

Long live 1 gigabyte = 8 * 2^30 bits!

    --Matt



On Thu, 2005-12-22 at 12:39 -0500, Michael T. Dean wrote:

> Scott Alfter wrote:
> 
> >Christian Borchmann wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>what are usefull settings for recording dayli episodes of cartoon with a
> >>pvr-350?
> >>
> >>u choose a bitrate form 2500-3500.
> >>    
> >>
> >Disk space is cheap.  I just record everything at 6 Mbps and call it a day.
> >With ~340 GB (real gigabytes, not "salesman's gigabytes") across three drives,
> >I've never run out of space.
> >
> 1 gigabyte = 1GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes
> 1 gibibyte = 1GiB = 1,073,741,824 bytes
> 
> (gibibyte as in "gigabinary")
> 
> So, a "salesman's gigabyte" is a "real gigabyte."  I think you're trying 
> to say you have ~340 "real gibibytes."
> 
> The lawyer who sued the hard drive manufacturers for false advertising 
> should have sued Microsoft, instead, since it was MS Windows that made 
> those bytes disappear (by calling X gibibytes X gigabytes).  Either 
> that, or the hard drive manufacturers should have countersued MS for 
> libel/slander (but, who can afford to sue MS).
> 
> Mike
> 
> http://physics.nist.gov/cgi-bin/cuu/Info/Units/binary.html
> 
> BTW, if you want a really annoying one, check out the prefix for the 
> binary version of an exabyte (10^18 bytes).  The exbibyte (2^60 bytes) 
> is hard to pronounce and makes a "learned technology professional" sound 
> like a babbling idiot.  (And, no, I didn't misspell it.)  The others are 
> just fun, though--the looks you get when you use the words in 
> conversation are priceless.
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