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To: Carnac who wrote (38330)	2/5/1999 12:46:00 PM
From: DiViT	Read Replies (3) of 50808

"the problem with the ReplayTV and TIVO boxes was simple: low bitrate" "1 hour" means 1 GB" "The 6 mbit video-pause mode was quite good' 6 mps of NTSC. Cool! Not only that, you'll consume all your disk space in a couple of hours. From the Replay Folks: ReplayTV uses the MPEG 2 compression system which allows a range of video quality settings. The ReplayTV compression rates are user adjustable from the default setting of 2Mbps (megabits per second) to 6Mbps. All storage times are calculated based on the default setting of 2 Mbps. At 2 Mbps the picture quality is better than VHS tape. At 4Mbps the quality is better than SVHS tape. Above 4Mbps the quality approaches the level of DVD. The default rate can be easily changed by controlling the ReplayTV on-screen menus. They say they can record up to 6hrs, so it appears that they are using about a 6 gigabyte drive. Someone mentioned recently that 2mbit is about one tenth the size of an ATSC transport stream. So to have the same storage time you'll need about 10x the storage to record DTV/HTDV. Anyone know how much a 60 gigabyte drive goes for?

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