You don't want the data off a Comcast DVR, it's so compressed that it bands like
16bit graphics and even subtitle data is lost. This was on a Minneapolis, MN market
SA DVR.
When CC gets around to enabling SA's SARA OS' DRM features it will disallow/degrade
recorded playback or even tuner
At 12:34 PM 9/23/2008, you wrote:
You don't want the data off a Comcast DVR, it's so compressed that
it bands like 16bit graphics and even subtitle data is lost. This
was on a Minneapolis, MN market SA DVR.
When CC gets around to enabling SA's SARA OS' DRM features it will
disallow/degrade
-Original Message-
From: maccrawj
You don't want the data off a Comcast DVR, it's so compressed
that it bands like 16bit graphics and even subtitle data is
lost. This was on a Minneapolis, MN market SA DVR.
What's the alternative? Even If I could get OTA HD, what about Sci-Fi
James Maki wrote:
-Original Message-
From: maccrawj
You don't want the data off a Comcast DVR, it's so compressed
that it bands like 16bit graphics and even subtitle data is
lost. This was on a Minneapolis, MN market SA DVR.
What's the alternative? Even If I could get OTA HD,
At 02:19 PM 9/23/2008, you wrote:
-Original Message-
From: Winterlight
if they don't I doubt they will
bother with this esoteric method since it is not HDMI.
However, it can still be used on DVD or Blueray players to record HD
It was my understanding that Blu-Ray required a
If you can see stepped banding of a graduated color, it's had the
shit compressed outta it! This was a standard TV, so no HD, but it
was a premium digital channel that looked worse live than VCR tape.
I don't have any experience with Comcast, but I can tell that with
COX switching from
At 03:54 PM 9/22/2008, you wrote:
Received my HD PVR last Friday. Initial impressions are all good. Haven't
been able to get the ir blaster working (but only gave it a quick try) but
don't really plan on using it. Video quality is very good.
I bought one of these as well, but I haven't
-Original Message-
From: Winterlight
As long as comcast doesn't start encrypting the local QAM
channels this is a great setup.
If by local you mean the big networks that broadcast over the air...
then that would be in violation of Federal law.
When has that stopped Comcast
don't really plan on using it. Video quality is very good. The problem
I
forsee is that editing and transcoding the H.264 files takes FOREVER! I
hope
I am missing something and any suggestions to speed things up would be
appreciated.
Clock and cores. x264, for its part, loves fast
-Original Message-
From: Greg Sevart
Clock and cores. x264, for its part, loves fast quad-cores.
Your encoder may
vary.
I've heard that it doesn't scale nearly as well beyond 4
unless you use very
high quality settings. You also have to watch your input
filters, if you're
-Original Message-
From: Winterlight
I bought one of these as well, but I haven't installed it
yet. Right now it only gets 1080i ... not p, but that is
what cable broadcasts.
So this is a non-issue for me at this time.
And it only does stereo, not surround. Hauppauge says a
Tivo allows you to transfer a HD recording to your computer? Even scrambled
cable channel
No, you have to get one of those cable cards from your cable
provider, in place of a cable box. You still have to rent it and have
an account. You put that in and then use TIVO as your cable box. The
-Original Message-
From: Wayne Johnson
Haupauge has a component capture device HD PVR
http://www.hauppauge.com/site/products/data_hdpvr.html
If when one decides to acquire this device would you please
let us know how you like it ?
Wonder how long before the powers that be
Wonder how long before the powers that be find a way to squash this product?
Why? Tivo has a similar product, as do others.
-Original Message-
From: Winterlight
Wonder how long before the powers that be find a way to
squash this product?
Why? Tivo has a similar product, as do others.
Tivo allows you to transfer a HD recording to your computer? Even scrambled
cable channels?
Pressed between the mountains and the Pacific, and under assault from
marine band interference,I am in a area that doesn't really have any
decent over the air TV. Before cable came along in the sixties, we
got 2 to 10 channels with large rooftop anttena and only one local
channel with rabbit
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