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Gear / Technical Help => Photo / Video Recording => Topic started by: ilduclo on November 05, 2007, 06:15:44 PM
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I'm currently using comcast and vcr to record tv. I don't want to stay with them, they continue to downgrade the service and the price keeps going up. Latest is I lost MSNBC so they could add a local sports cable show....
Any sattelite users out there? What do you really pay for the like 50 channel service including local stations, BBC, and PBS?
Can you record a bunch of shows to vhs on different channels without being there? I heard you may need to switch the channels on your box yourself to get it to work right....
thanks, any info appreciated.
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A thought: I do not know about cable, but sat is compressed.
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It's all compressed. Digital cable and satellite both transport mpeg2 and mpeg4 streams. The perceived quality is a function of the compression profile used to squeze the content stream into the allocated bit rate. A lot of the "secondary channels" are really compressed all to hell on cable too.
You can get Tivo software in some of the DVB-S set top boxes. If I were starting over, I'd get dish with the Tivo PVR software and then transfer the shows I want to keep to a DVD.
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in terms of a direct compare between local cable (timewarner) and satellite (directv), to my eyes directv pic quality won out hands down. Fact is there are still a fair amount of channels on cable that are still sourced analog and the pic quality is awful. DirectV is completely digital and the pic quality is excellent imo.
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The DirectTV Tivo boxes do not support the Tivo to go functionality so you cant easily transfer the data off of a DTTTivo. Tivo HD on the other hand.......
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The DirectTV Tivo boxes do not support the Tivo to go functionality so you cant easily transfer the data off of a DTTTivo. Tivo HD on the other hand.......
Can you get a DVB-S cards for the Tivo HD to decode dish?
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Also, how much lag is there when flipping channels?
this is the one real bad thing...up to 2-4 seconds when flipping between channels on different satellites...mildly annoying
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Very similar delay on comcast.. very annoying for those who surf during commercials.
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The DirectTV Tivo boxes do not support the Tivo to go functionality so you cant easily transfer the data off of a DTTTivo. Tivo HD on the other hand.......
Can you get a DVB-S cards for the Tivo HD to decode dish?
I have never seen them. I don't believe the HDTivo has the tuners for the satellite that are able to switch between the transponders & multiple LNBs. You do need the Cable Cards from your cable provider.
I had DirectTV Tivo prior to going to Hd and while there was a bit of lag changing channels I never did it because of the tivo. I did often watch 2 channels at the same time. You could pause one tuner, watch another program, pause it at the commercial and swap back to the first paused tuner and catch up.