How much storage do you have for MythTV?

[Chris Ribe <chrisribe (at) gmail.com>]

My PVR-150 records at the default 2.1GB/hr.   My TiVo
captures the MPEG-2 stream broadcast by the satellite.   

Once upon a time,  I had a standalone TiVo with Comcast
cable.  It was one (puts pinky to mouth) MILLION times better than
having side by side TVs to watch concurrent baseball games.  

I'd take my Myth box over my SA TiVo anyday.  I'd say the picture
quality difference between those 2 was negligible, but the Myth box has
never been hooked up to anything other than a computer monitor. The
Tivo was always hooked up to a TV (except for 4.25 glorious snowy hours
that made Adam Vinatieri and "The Tuck Rule" household names, when it
was hooked up to a DLP front projector).

All that said,  DirecTiVo PQ = DirecTV PQ > (IMnsHO) Comcast PQ > Comcast captured by PVR PQ.

On 1/26/06, Michael T. Dean <mtdean (at) thirdcontact.com> wrote:

On 01/26/2006 09:18 PM, Chad wrote:
>> To keep somewhat on the topic of recording space, my Directv tivo stores
>> about 36 hours of SD programming (at about 1GB/hr), and its quality is
>> vastly superior to what I get get from my Comcast cable and PVR-150.
>>
> Is the PVR also set to record at ~1GB/hr too?
>

And at the lower-than-Full-D1 resolution that TiVo uses (TTBOMK, 352x480
on basic/medium, 480x480 on high, and 544x480 on best--but I'm guessing
with the file size your talking about, you're talking about basic or at
most medium).

If you have a low bitrate and a high resolution, you'll get a terrible
picture.  Same with a high bitrate and a low resolution.  They need to
be well-matched.

Mike

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