[mythtv-users] MythTV vs. Windows Media Center

[jedi]

On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 11:22:49AM -0500, Eric Sharkey wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 11:12 AM, jedi <jedi at mishnet.org> wrote:
> >    One thing to keep in mind is that digital allows for cable companies
> > to recompress the signal themselves. So what you get from a cable company
> > may already be degraded.
> 
> As opposed to analog, which only allowed the cable companies to
> degrade the signal with noise, ghost images, cross-talk from other
> channels...

    That sounds more like being subject to the limitations of physics
rather than transcoding content down to a lower bitrate or even a lower
resolution.

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