[mythtv-users] Myth/HDHR impressions & issues

[Calvin Harrigan]

Alan Marchiori wrote:
> I have been using the HDHR for about 2 years now.  I have noticed that
> some of the recent shows (in HD) are incorrectly comm flagged.
> Usually it skips too early or goes beyond the end of the commercials.
> Now that you mention this I have only noticed this in the past 6mo to
> 1 year.  Maybe coincidence but I don't think it's just you.  On the
> other hand I can't say that I've noticed this problem with SD
> programs.
> 
> I am using QAM sources from the cable co.  I wonder if that has
> anything to do with it?  I know the quality is not as good as ATSC,
> but I get more channels this way.
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Compared to the PVR-150/250 data where commercial flagging has always
>> done a good job for me on the HDHR, for both SD and my wife tells me
>> for HD, it's doing a comparatively bad job. Actually, I wouldn't know
>> about it going to commercials early if it wasn't for the windows
>> player which has a little red light that turns on when it's in
>> commercials. None of this is auto-skipping, it's just what I notice
>> using the platform.
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I'm pretty sure that this doesn't haven't anything to do with the HDHR 
as commercials are flagged after they are recorded and the HDHR simply 
receives the stream from the broadcaster without any modifications.