Posted by Rolo Tomassi on 10/08/05 20:50

the dog from that film you saw wrote:
> "Rolo Tomassi" <abc@defgco.kr> wrote in message
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>> I want one that captures it uncompressed then sits there overnight
>> compressing to MPEG2 overnight with a kick-ass algorithm and then
>> burns it to dual layer when it's ready - best of all worlds. Picture
>> quality is top of my wish list because of my big front
>> projector set up.
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> problem is, the signal is mpeg2 already - it's compressed - so
> capturing it uncompressed and converting to mpeg2 overnight would
> ironically give you an inferior picture to one that captures the
> freeview mpeg2 signal as is - and then burns it.
> no re-encoding required.

Yes, I see what you mean but for me I want to use it with Sky+ (to back up
stuff longer term). The picture is crap as it is so I don't want further
degredation on copying from the box to the recorder.

I suppose then, I want Sky+ with DL DVD-R built in.

Rolo

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