<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 3, 2007 11:18 PM, George Mari <<a href="mailto:george_mythusers@mari1938.org">george_mythusers@mari1938.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">David Linville wrote:<br>> On 12/3/07, Brad DerManouelian <<a href="mailto:myth@dermanouelian.com">myth@dermanouelian.com</a>> wrote:<br>>> 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?<br><br></div>Yes, by definition.<br><div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
>>> I agree 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></div>I would like to record it and watch it in HD quality as well. But my<br>service provider doesn't allow it. It bothers me, as I feel that if I'm
<br>paying a monthly fee for an HD receiver, I should be allowed to view<br>that content as I wish.<br><br>[deleted]<br><div class="Ih2E3d">><br>> Wouldn't you end up with black bars on the top and bottom recording that
<br>> way? If so that would kill quite a bit of extra resolution.<br>><br><br></div>The best resolution you can get this way is wide-screen 480i. This is<br>the same way anamorphic DVD content works. You takes a 16:9 content
<br>stream, send it out your STB S-Video output, it gets squished<br>horizontally to record at 720x480 pixels (4:3 aspect ratio) by analog<br>tuner/encoder card, and stretched back out horizontally by MythTV to<br>it's proper aspect ratio. The only difference between this and
<br>anamorphic DVD is that DVD content is usually 480p (progressive) versus<br>480i (interlaced).<br><br>I just researched all this a few weeks ago when I upgraded from SD<br>DirecTV to HD DirecTV. The High-def DirecTV set top boxes (Dish too,
<br>probably cable boxes also) let you set the format of the signal being<br>sent out any of it's outputs. You tell it whether you have a 4:3 or<br>16:9 TV, and you tell it how it should display programs that don't match
<br>the aspect ratio of your TV - letter box, pillar box, squished<br>horizontally, etc. You can even cycle through the formats with a button<br>on your remote.<br><br>I get better results with Widescreen 480i than I did stretching 4:3
<br>programs to fit my 16:9 TV. I see fewer artifacts, and just better<br>overall quality. It's not HD, but it's better than 4:3 SD, at least to<br>my eyes. Part of that could be that the DirecTV HD signal is less
<br>overcompressed than the SD signal was, but whatever.<br><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">_______________________________________________<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br>A good discussion on S-video resolution can be found at
<a href="http://episteme.arstechnica.com/6/ubb.x?a=tpc&s=50009562&f=67909965&m=6190999994">http://episteme.arstechnica.com/6/ubb.x?a=tpc&s=50009562&f=67909965&m=6190999994</a> <br></div></div><br>