[mythtv-users] Matrox Millennium G400 MAX

[Brian Wood]

On Tuesday, October 05, 2010 08:03:19 am mike at grounded.net wrote:
> > So do you store two copies of everything (SD and HD), or convert on the
> > fly? Some other solution?
> 
> Neither. There's nothing I want to watch bad enough to spend that kind of
> time on it. Movies are for the most part crap these days, way too much CG,
> few good stories that aren't rushed into finish to meet budgets, it's just
> awful.

Boy that's the truth. So much today is either sequels or remakes, or outright exploitation of some group (usually kids). 
They want a guaranteed hit, and stealing someone else's previous success seems to them to be the way to get that. The 
follow-ons are never as good as the originals, so you might as well just watch that. "Ocean's 47", or whatever incarnation 
they are at now, can't touch the original 1960s version, and the latest "Star Trek" was a travesty as well as outright 
theft of concept (I don't care if they paid for the rights, it stunk, and dishonored the original).

> 
> For movies, we either netflix streaming (assuming they never raise their
> prices, that'll work for us for ever)

I agree, Netflix is great. It shows that DVD quality is sufficient for most things. My main fear is that as more people 
discover Netflix streaming the ISPs will tighten up their bandwidth caps, trying to push other on-demand services that cost 
far more, and are often owned by the ISP itself (usually a cable company).

If I really want HD quality, Netflix now has Blu-Rays (which, hypothetically of course, can be ripped).

And there is always that thing we never talk about, ending with "net", and starting with "use".

> or if we want better graphics, I'll
> order up SD or HD DVD's, encode them, and watch them when we get the
> opportunity, then nuke it.
> 
> For regular TV, most things are fine in SD so I record them in SD. Anything
> that should be HD, I record the HD version. If it only comes in HD and
> we're not going to watch it on an HD TV, we don't care, we live with it
> :).

That's similar to my feelings, I just wondered how others were handling the "HD or SD" decision.

It's only TV, nothing is worth many hours to make sure I don't "miss" it.

Thanks for your insights.