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Re: Time Warner Cable tells VCR owners to go to hell |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Sat Nov 21 19:34:17 2009, in response to Re: Time Warner Cable tells VCR owners to go to hell, posted by Grand Concourse on Sat Nov 21 19:10:54 2009. Unlike tape which spools off at a regular rate regardless of what's recording, digital size is strictly a function of the quality of recording and how much motion is in it overall. You get a space savings if the original is letterboxed, has lots of fixed scenery or limited action sequences. Screen elements that don't change don't need to be refreshed until they DO change to give you an idea of how compression works.I do all of my recordings in MPEG2 (same data format as a DVD) and will take things I've recorded and don't intend to watch much and "archive" those to MP4 (Apple-like) format. A 2 hour movie typically comes in at around 3 gigabyes in MPEG2, some can end up around 6 GB, about 1 gigabyte in MP4 format. 1080p HD tends to eat between 16 and 24 GB for 2 hours worth. Sports is particularly hungry, but I don't do that. My server can play ANY format presented. That's why I have 4000 gigabytes of hard disk on it. Megabytes is out of the question unless you wanna fill the drive with one commercial. :) |
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