On 12/3/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Brad DerManouelian</b> <<a href="mailto:myth@dermanouelian.com">myth@dermanouelian.com</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;">
On Dec 3, 2007, at 11:19 AM, James Gutshall Jr wrote:<br><br>> "downsampled content via SVideo"<br>><br>> Doesnt this, by definition change the content to NOT HD? I agree<br>> that it provides a way to watch the channel, but for some, the the
<br>> HD channel is also available in analog, thus the problem isnt<br>> watching that particular program. the problem is that we want to<br>> record, and watch later, the program in question.... in HD quality.<br>
<br>No one complains when I put in a DVD about the "poor quality" because<br>it's not HD. You'll get about that quality from down-sampled S-Video<br>that started as HD quality. Saves a ton of disk space, too. I was
<br>thinking about upgrading my DirecTV to HD for this specific scenario.<br></blockquote><div><br>Wouldn't you end up with black bars on the top and bottom recording that way? If so that would kill quite a bit of extra resolution.
<br><br>David<br></div><br></div>