On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 15:57 -0500, Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
> 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.
AFAIK, since the regulation is meant for cable companies, it would seem
that unencrypted broadcast television that they can't downsize it.
Now, it may be a different story for ESPN, HBO, etc., but aren't the
broadcast television channels (which can't be downsized by them)
generally a subset of OTA HD anyway?
-I
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