[mythtv-users] composite video out to be disabled

[Christopher Kerr]

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
> On Wednesday 24 February 2010 03:58:06 pm freedenizen wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
>> > Doesn't that output uncompressed video? If so, you better have a LOT of
>> > disk space.
>>
>> It can output component which you can feed into an HD-PVR
>
> Yeah, I was thinking of using it as a capture device, but you're right.
>
> The real problem is that many older HD TV sets have only component inputs, are
> the going to get them replaced for free? That doesn't seem fair.

The suggestion isn't that component outputs will be disabled, but that
they will be forced to downscale to SD - where SD is defined to be, if
I recall, 576i with square pixels. So the image would be a little
better than a PAL DVD, and perhaps noticeably better than an NTSC DVD.

- Chris