[mythtv-users] Best settings for transcoding HD content to save space?

[Stephen P. Villano]

On 5/13/14, 4:59 PM, Gary Buhrmaster wrote:
> On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 8:49 PM, Andre Newman <mythtv-list at dinkum.org.uk> wrote:
> ....
>> When chip & pin was introduced here it was primarily an opportunity for the card companies to bring in new terms and conditions making the retailer much more liable for card fraud than before. There wasn’t much choice but one of the Garage chains (gas stations) found some technical problem and took a stand against it for a year or so.
> <OT>
>
> Not only the merchants.  But also the consumer.
> With chip and pin the presumption by the banks
> will be that the charge will have to be proven to
> have not been made by the individual, since who
> could possibly know your pin (which, in the US, a very
> high percentage of the people write their ATM
> pin on the card, and likely their new credit card
> too :-)
About the only real way, short of idiots writing their PIN on the card
and the card being physically stolen (rather than cloned), is with the
legacy mag strip/card number and PIN with online transactions.
> I expect the backlash from that (after the news
> organizations find some poor single parent whose
> card was stolen, and lost their ability to pay for
> food for their sick infant (see, I already have the
> storyboard ready)) to result either in banks going
> back to a presumption of innocence, or some
> attempt at banking regulation (after all, in the
> US, it cannot be the individual who is at fault
> for writing their PIN on the card).
Nah, it'd get played as blame the victim, for she's a welfare queen and
"breeder".
> </OT>
>
> Gary
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