<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 1:46 PM, John P Poet <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jppoet@gmail.com">jppoet@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 9:36 AM, James Orr <<a href="mailto:james.orr7@gmail.com">james.orr7@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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</div><div><div></div><div class="h5">> On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 7:02 PM, James Maclaren <<a href="mailto:maclaren@tulane.edu">maclaren@tulane.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> I have just recently bought an HDPVR - wished I had known they would be on<br>
>> sale - everything is working fine. I have a PVR 250 as well currently on the<br>
>> same feed for SD shows from directv. Both the hdpvr and pvr 250 are in the<br>
>> same recording group. My question is, should I just record everything on<br>
>> component to the hdpvr or keep the current configuration. What are other<br>
>> users doing? How will the quality/size be of sd recordings compare to that<br>
>> of the pvr 250 recorded in 480i through s-video? I have my directv box set<br>
>> to ouput 720p which is the resolution of my hdtv.<br>
>> Thanks for any advice.<br>
>> James<br>
>><br>
> I just setup my HD-PVR yesterday and in a similar situation.<br>
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> Will the directv box output s-video and component at the same time?<br>
><br>
> My PVR-250 recordings were about 2.2GB/hour while my HD-PVR 480i recordings<br>
> are coming in at about 0.8 GB/hour so that's significantly smaller. The<br>
> quality is perhaps not quite as good but I think it's good enough. I only<br>
> have two channels I watch that aren't available in HD (comedy central and<br>
> BBC America).<br>
<br>
</div></div>If the quality via the HD-PVR is lower, you probably have the bitrate<br>
on the HD-PVR set too low.<br><div><div class="h5">
<a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org"></a><br></div></div></blockquote><div>I was just looking at that actually. Mostly because the HD recordings don't look quite as good as my HDHR recordings.<br><br>At the moment I just have the default settings. The bitrates are broken up into low, medium and high resolution, I assume that corresponds to 480, 720 and 1080? My high resolution bitrate is set at the max the sliders will allow.<br>
<br>The recording is marked as 1080 in MythTV, but the file size (about 4.5 GB/hour) suggests the medium avg bitrate of 9000 instead of the high avg bitrate of 13500.<br></div></div><br>