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a combination dvd recorder/directv receiver/tivo?

"Rob" shaped the electrons to say:
a combination dvd recorder/directv receiver/tivo?

Nope.

DTV/TiVo - yes
TiVo/DVD-RW - yes

All three - no.

And don't hold your breath, it'd take a lot of work to produce one.
The signal from the DTV satellites is not DVD compliant do a unit
would have to have the power to reencode anything you want to burn to
disc. The current DVD-RW units just record things to the HD in the
DVD compliant format in the first place - no re-encoding needed.

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Thu, 29 Jan 2004 20:49:19 GMT, suggested:
: a combination dvd recorder/directv receiver/tivo?

I've seen dvd recorder/tivo and directv/tivo, but not all three. It would
be up to DirecTV to decide to offer this, and since they don't even offer
the Home Media Option on their units, I'd be surprised to see one with a
DVD recorder.

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29 Jan 2004 20:59:49 GMT, suggested:
: "Rob" shaped the electrons to say:
:a combination dvd recorder/directv receiver/tivo?
:
: Nope.
:
: DTV/TiVo - yes
: TiVo/DVD-RW - yes
:
: All three - no.
:
: And don't hold your breath, it'd take a lot of work to produce one.
: The signal from the DTV satellites is not DVD compliant do a unit
: would have to have the power to reencode anything you want to burn to
: disc. The current DVD-RW units just record things to the HD in the
: DVD compliant format in the first place - no re-encoding needed.

So, the DVD-RW TiVos use different quality settings than the SA TiVos? I
guess that makes more sense than spending all that CPU energy transcoding.
Do the DVD-RW units use higher bitrates, or just DVD resolutions at
similar bitrates?

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andrewunix wrote:
So, the DVD-RW TiVos use different quality settings than the SA TiVos?

Yes

Do the DVD-RW units use higher bitrates, or just DVD resolutions at
similar bitrates?

The DVD-RW units use DVD resolutions at similiar bitrates. They also
add a new bitrate option ("extreme") to make up for the higher
resolution.

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andrewunix shaped the electrons to say:
So, the DVD-RW TiVos use different quality settings than the SA TiVos? I
guess that makes more sense than spending all that CPU energy transcoding.
Do the DVD-RW units use higher bitrates, or just DVD resolutions at
similar bitrates?

DVD resolution and new bitrates. Approximately 10Mbps, 5Mbps,
2.6Mbps, and 1.7Mbps. (1, 2, 4 and 6 hours on a DVD.) Someone has
probably hacked one by now and gotten the actual bitrates - those are
mathematical estimates.

-MZ, RHCE #806199299900541, ex-CISSP #3762
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