On Feb 15, 2008 5:06 PM, Simon Kenyon <<a href="mailto:simon@koala.ie">simon@koala.ie</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><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">On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 12:54 +0000, Steve Smith wrote:<br><br>> I think the key thing here is ..... * UK * . Here in the UK we don't<br>> really have HD yet (apart from limited Sky and Virigin services & then<br>
> you don't get the raw digital signal). So unless you're downloading it<br>> HD playback probably isn't required. SD only is all that's needed.<br><br></div>of course that is only really true for the next 6 weeks or so.<br>
bbc/itv lanuch freesat which will give you HD (with Channel 4 coming<br>later this year)<br><br></blockquote><div>Or not wait at all and get BBC HD which is broadcast on DVB-S already for free. Of course decoding the h.264 stream without stuttering requires a supercomputer on steroids (or at least a reasonable Core 2 Duo or equivalent now that Myth supports both cores being used in ffmpeg for decode)<br>
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