On 5/16/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Cory Papenfuss</b> <<a href="mailto:papenfuss@juneau.me.vt.edu">papenfuss@juneau.me.vt.edu</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> I can dig that much. How do we figure out the signal quality, then?<br>><br> Simple... it's all crap. As was pointed out before, to have more<br>than crap costs more than anyone but broadcasters can pay. They're
<br>*required* to have clean, standards-compliant signals.</blockquote><div><br><br>... so they put in the minimal amount of effort necessary to comply? Makes sense, I guess. The average consumer doesn't seem to notice- heck, I guess it took me long enough.
<br><br>So what's the point of having recording profiles that record at full D1 resolution, compliant with DVD spec?<br><br><a href="http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Recording_Parameters">http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Recording_Parameters
</a><br><br>Is that for people who are watching HDTV? Otherwise, it seems like an awful lot of waste if all we're really getting through conventional cable is technically 440x480.<br><br>Jack.<br></div></div><br>