On Wednesday 09 February 2005 15:29, Ian Forde wrote: > On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 13:10 -0500, Joseph A. Caputo wrote: > > The cable companies are not required to provide HD resolution on the > > Firewire output. Most likely any HD content will be transcoded > > inside > > the cable box to, say, 480p before it's output over Firewire. As > > for > > viewing, that's totally independent of your cable box/Firewire > > setup. > > Since the recording are probably not going to be HD anyway, it > > really > > doesn't matter that you're going to be viewing them on a standard > > TV. > > Except that the recording that I'm getting IS HD. People over on > avsforum have been capturing HD, unencrypted, over firewire since at > least October of 2003. And it's not just 480p. I've been getting > 1080i > and 720p. > > I'm wondering why you think my experience is not the norm...
Right now you're getting some HD resolutions, but AFAIK the cable co. is not *required* to give you anything higher than HD, as long as the content is viewable. It's entirely possible that the cable company could even change this behavior on your current STB with a stealth firmware upgrade. Unencrypted broadcast televsion cannot be down-sized; not sure if that applies to broadcast channels carried by a cable provider. If you want to see *exactly* what the FCC requires vis-a-vis output from cable STBs, take a look at the actual regulation. It's very educational: http://makunu.com/browse/show/37812 -JAC _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
