[mythtv-users] PAL AND NTSC Supported Tuner

[Brian Wood]

On Oct 16, 2006, at 4:27 PM, Daniel Kristjansson wrote:

>
> FYI A $10K device would probably do a better job, since
> we don't do any interlaced->interlaced scaling, only
> interlaced->progressive->interlaced scaling, which looses
> some information. If the source was originally a movie
> however, MythTV's PAL->NTSC should look very good and
> NTSC->PAL should look good as well if you use the ivtc
> deinterlacer.
>


The $10K devices were designed to make sure the resulting output met  
broadcast standards, back when there were such things. Problems like  
blanking width too wide used to result in a fine from the FCC, but I  
think you can get away with the uncorrected output of a $200 VHS  
camcorder fed directly into a transmitter these days :-)

They never really eliminated the rules, they just eliminated any  
budget to enforce them, which amounts to the same thing in the end.