[mythtv-users] Thanks!

Robert Tsai rtsai1111 at comcast.net
Thu Feb 16 23:10:22 UTC 2006


On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 08:45:25AM +1100, Phill Edwards wrote:
> > It is now happily recording the shows I want, and I can even play
> > HDTV back after transcoding....  Analog works fine without
> > transcoding.
> 
> Just a question for the group. Does it make sense to record in HDTV
> and then transcode? Why record in the best quality and then
> downgrade the quality to something else? Wouldn't it make more sense
> to record in a lower format in the 1st place, such as SDTV
> (assuming, of course, that SDTV is available)?

If you record on a card that has no encoder (e.g., HD-3000), then you
don't have the option of "recording in a lower format in the first
place".

--Rob
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