[mythtv-users] The Death of MythTV in the US?

Phil Bridges gravityhammer at gmail.com
Fri Mar 28 02:48:28 UTC 2008


On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 10:27 PM, jedi <jedi at mishnet.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 10:16:22PM -0400, Phil Bridges wrote:
>  > On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 10:05 PM, jedi <jedi at mishnet.org> wrote:
>  > >
>  > >     Even if Good Eats and Scooby Doo were available in genuine HD, I am not
>  > >  sure I would care to spend 7-9GB per hour on either. The same goes for old
>  > >  movies that have been mutilated and most new stuff.
>  > >
>  >
>  > Two corrections:
>  >
>  > (1) Good Eats is available in genuine HD.
>
>     Are you sure about that? I've seen stuff that I know can't have
>  been produced in HD coming over at 720p or 1080p. Then it compresses
>  down to what an SD transmission would.
>
>
>  > (2) It records at less than 6 GB per hour for me from my cable box.
>
>     That's still 10 times as much storage for no real added value.
>
>  [deletia]
>

Yes, I'm sure.  They're only showing the newer episodes on FoodHD
because they've been recorded in HD.

I'd like to know how you're recording an episode of Good Eats that totals 300MB.


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