[mythtv-users] colour "sharpness" question

[Brian Wood]

On Oct 19, 2006, at 12:40 AM, Michael T. Dean wrote:

>>
> Higher bitrate means bigger files, which means fewer hours of TV  
> fit on
> your system.  With a hardware encoder (i.e. PVR-x50/PVR-500), there's
> (practically) no other effect on system resources.
>
> Note, though, that with the PVR-x50's/500's, having an average bitrate
> over 6000kbps is probably a waste.  As a matter of fact, you're likely
> to hit the electronics' quality ceiling by 4500kbps or so (assuming a
> good quality input signal).  Just make sure you have a reasonable
> maximum bitrate (about 133% the average bitrate).  The default for  
> PVR's
> is 4500kbps average and 6000kbps max.


You might find this informative:

http://www.mediachance.com/dvdlab/tutorial/bitrate.html