[mythtv-users] Recommendations for HD capture

Cory Papenfuss papenfuss at juneau.me.vt.edu
Tue Feb 19 18:24:18 UTC 2008


On Tue, 19 Feb 2008, Yeechang Lee wrote:

> Cory Papenfuss <papenfuss at juneau.me.vt.edu> says:
>>  	... until they flip the bit that forces players/boxes to
>> down-sample anything out the analog port to SD 480p.
>
> And upset everyone who has hooked up their cable boxes to HDTVs using
> component output? Hardly.
>
 	You say that now, but it will happen.  Maybe not with the cable 
boxes so quickly, but the BluRay will have that turned on in the 
not-too-distant future to plug the "analog hole."  The sad thing is that 
the majority of the general public won't notice the lack of HD.

-Cory


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* Cory Papenfuss, Ph.D., PPSEL-IA                                       *
* Electrical Engineering                                                *
* Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University                   *
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