On Friday 06 April 2007 13:54:16 Thomas Charron wrote: > 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.
DirecTV is speshul. There's no way to get their offerings onto a myth box in the same digital format they send them in, so discussion about their stuff is mostly worthless to me. > > > 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. BluRay and HDDVD are both speshul too. They're a closer discussion to DVD than to broadcast HDTV. > 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. Okay, yes. Seems we're talking about two very different cases here. I was talking solely ATSC material that something like a Linux box could actually record in its original transmitted digital format -- broadcast and cable HDTV programming -- not encryption-encumbered stuff. -- Jarod Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
