[mythtv-users] Quiet HDs?

[Steve Adeff]

On Tuesday 29 November 2005 13:59, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> Ben Edwards wrote:
> >On 29/11/05, Bertrand <bertrandmuscle at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >>SpinPoints DO look pretty good! Thanks for that. Can't seem to find the
> >>SATA II units, but I guess I'll go for the PATA. Was worried about speed
> >>with HDTV and all..
> >
> >I've done a fair amount of Mini DV video editing.  A couple of yeards
> >ago a decent 7200 spin speed drive could deliver 3 files (during real
> >time rendering).  How many times greater are HDTV streams than DVB
> >streams?  Basicaly if you know the sustained transfur rate of the
> >drive and the bandwidth of the HDTV stream you shuold be able to work
> >this out.
>
> HDTV is actually smaller than DV.  Full NTSC/PAL resolution DV is about
> 12GB/hr.  HDTV is between about 4 and 10GiB/hr (probably averaging about
> 7GiB/hr).
>
> Mike

I believe some channels have even gone up to 15, PBS, movie channels, InHD 
type stuff.

-- 
Steve