[mythtv-users] Hauppauge in trouble with the FCC

[Michael T. Dean]

On 03/08/2008 12:45 PM, Brian Wood wrote:
> On Mar 8, 2008, at 10:44 AM, Mitch Gore wrote:
>> I would say they are low quality because they are trying to smash as  
>> much recording time as possible on the recording media (be it  
>> digital or analog)  they want to keep the longest backlog possible  
>> with the least amount of $$$.  What you end up with is a low quality  
>> video that "does the job"
> But it doesn't "do the job", which is to allow the recognition of  
> potential suspects. All that can be proven by most of those pics is  
> that the culprit was perhaps a bipedal mammal.

I don't know about that...  On CSI, they just run the 120x90 photo 
through something called an "algorithm" and they have a beautiful 
high-definition image that allows them to read license plates at 200 
meters, see a stray bullet lodged in a building 100 meters, or see a 
clear reflection of the suspect in the dirty blue paint of a US mail 
collection box.  If only they could improve this algorithm to let them 
get the fingerprints of the suspect...

I'll have to submit a feature request on the wiki for adding an 
"algorithm" to Myth's TV playback...

Mike