<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Cutting to 1GB--which costs all the time it takes you to a) edit the recording to make sure commercials are properly marked (where cutting out 1/3 of the recording, the commercials, is the only way to get from 8GB to 1GB without terrible, terrible quality loss), b) set up the transcode, c) verify the transcode (possibly skipping through the recording to verify audio exists throughout and is properly synch'ed--which may well ruin any surprises in the recording), and remove the original--saves you $0.233. </blockquote>
<div><br></div><div>Actually, a few cents less than that. You have to count the electricity cost of transcoding vs idle.</div></div></div></div>