On 4/6/07, Jarod Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Friday 06 April 2007 12:46:43 Thomas Charron wrote: > On 4/6/07, Jarod Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Friday 06 April 2007 12:05:39 brk wrote: > That OTA HDTV? In my case, no, not at the moment, but that doesn't matter one lick. In the case of the major networks, its the exact same mpeg2 program stream that winds up being viewed for both cable and over the air HDTV.
I haven't hooked up an OTA tuner to our home system, so I wasn't actually sure if OTA broadcasts where being done at a higher resolution/sound quality then DirecTV's HDTV offerings. Although DirecTV is starting to stream with MPEG4.
> Many HDTV content providers gimp the quality of the > audio down to 5.1 over the SPDIF Erm, "gimp it down to 5.1"? That *is* dolby digital, and its the form of dolby digital I've seen in all HDTV recordings I've ever captured... > and will only provide 1080p/Dolby > 7.1 over HDMI. Just a note. I've never seen an HDTV show broadcast in 1080p, or with DD7.1 sound. Where are you getting this data from? And I fail to see how 7.1 audio would only be allowed on HDMI. There's no copy protection bits here. These are just mpeg2 files. You can prod the files directly with ffmpeg, mencoder, mplayer, etc. directly to see what audio streams are present.
Mostly Blu-Ray / HD-DVD content. Although DirecTV does in some cases provide 1080p/Dolby 7.1 for PPV movies. Both PPV and Blu-Ray content must be played over a 'secured medium', or else it downgrades as I stated. For instance, the PS3 will only do 1080i and Dolby 5.1 when utilizing a component video / SPDIF combo. -- -- Thomas _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
