[mythtv-users] Recording Bitrates fpr PVR 350

[Michael T. Dean]

Matt Mossholder wrote:

> Just because one standards group decided that a group of people had 
> misused their standard after 20/30/40? years, and decided people 
> should change doesn't mean that we, as users have to listen.
>
> Standards are only as good as peoples decisions to use them.
>
> Long live 1 gigabyte = 8 * 2^30 bits!
>
>     --Matt

You would make an excellent CEO of Microsoft Corp.  ;)

Mike

> On Thu, 2005-12-22 at 12:39 -0500, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>
>>Scott Alfter wrote:
>>
>>>Christian Borchmann wrote:
>>>  
>>>
>>>>what are usefull settings for recording dayli episodes of cartoon with a
>>>>pvr-350?
>>>>
>>>>u choose a bitrate form 2500-3500.
>>>>    
>>>>
>>>Disk space is cheap.  I just record everything at 6 Mbps and call it a day.
>>>With ~340 GB (real gigabytes, not "salesman's gigabytes") across three drives,
>>>I've never run out of space.
>>>
>>1 gigabyte = 1GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes
>>1 gibibyte = 1GiB = 1,073,741,824 bytes
>>
>>(gibibyte as in "gigabinary")
>>
>>So, a "salesman's gigabyte" is a "real gigabyte."  I think you're trying 
>>to say you have ~340 "real gibibytes."
>>
>>The lawyer who sued the hard drive manufacturers for false advertising 
>>should have sued Microsoft, instead, since it was MS Windows that made 
>>those bytes disappear (by calling X gibibytes X gigabytes).  Either 
>>that, or the hard drive manufacturers should have countersued MS for 
>>libel/slander (but, who can afford to sue MS).
>>
>>Mike
>>
>>http://physics.nist.gov/cgi-bin/cuu/Info/Units/binary.html
>>
>>BTW, if you want a really annoying one, check out the prefix for the 
>>binary version of an exabyte (10^18 bytes).  The exbibyte (2^60 bytes) 
>>is hard to pronounce and makes a "learned technology professional" sound 
>>like a babbling idiot.  (And, no, I didn't misspell it.)  The others are 
>>just fun, though--the looks you get when you use the words in 
>>conversation are priceless.
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