Once upon a time Ron Koms shaped the electrons to say... > Hmmm. ALL my channels are this way on the Series 3, even 2 thru 99. So, > like you say they must all be digital.
Could be. > If this true, then am I still going to get 300 hrs? Or will they all be > considered HD? > But wait, there is SD digital, and HD digital??? Perhaps, no, and yes. :-) 300 hours is the capacity as *Basic*. In my experience a digital SD program will use For example, I have a one hour analog SD program off NGC recorded at High on my S3 and it says it uses 2.53GB. I also have a one hour digital SD program off SCIENCE on my S3 and it says it uses 1.26GB. You won't get 300 hours that way, but it'll be closer to the capacity at Medium. Roughly half the space - but the digital SD program is of much higher quality, higher even than if I'd used Best on the analog program. Why? The digital programs are encoded using expensive commercial multi-pass encoders that can produce a higher compression for a given quality than the consumer single-pass encoder in the TiVo. Consumer DVRs don't really have a choice but to use single-pass encoders becuase they need to encode the video in real time, as it is received. Commercial encoders can make multiple passes over the video to analyze it and optimize the encoder for each video - or even subsections of the video, getting the best encoding possible The digital SD channels are still just 480i like analog channels, just pre-encoded. -MZ -- megazone-at-megazone.org http://www.MegaZone.org/ Gweep, Geek, Human, me. http://www.GizmoLovers.com/ http://www.Eyrie-Productions.com/ -><- Hail Eris "A little nonsense now and then, is relished by the wisest men" 508-852-2171
