[mythtv-users] Recommendations for HD capture

David Brodbeck gull at gull.us
Tue Feb 19 22:15:30 UTC 2008


On Feb 19, 2008, at 8:52 AM, 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.

Most consumers wouldn't know the difference.  99% of the HDTVs I see  
are playing stretched analog content.  If people can't tell the  
difference between 16:9 and stretched-out 4:3, why would they notice  
the difference between 1080i and 480p?



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