[mythtv-users] Recommendations for HD capture

Yeechang Lee ylee at pobox.com
Thu Feb 21 05:44:57 UTC 2008


Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> says:
> I'd agree.  IMHO, we (the US) did it all wrong.  Making a switch
> from analog cra^H^H^HTV to digital /and/ high def all at once was a
> bad decision.  Europe got things closer to correct by switching from
> analog to standard-def digital.

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> We're stuck with MPEG-2, which uses up to 2x the bandwidth of a
> similar quality H.264.

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