[mythtv-users] DTV: It Has Begun

David Watkins watkinshome at gmail.com
Tue Sep 9 15:09:57 UTC 2008


> In the United States, the setting of the digital transition the thread
> is discussing--and unlike the case in New Zealand and most of the rest
> of the world--"digital," in this context, in practice more or less
> does mean 1920x1080i or 1280x720p HDTV. This is why American MythTV
> users on this list have been able to routinely record and easily play
> back HDTV broadcasts for years.
>

.. and America has been broadcasting in MPEG2 while Europe and its
antipodes chose MPEG4; harder to decode and play.


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