HD - DirectTV - Tivo

[dclutter]

Guys:  any news on when a HD - DirectTV - Tivo box will be available?  I have the go ahead from  my Boss to get one, she gets my old Tivo box?  I was at Flanners a week ago and talk to salerep and he said that they are having trouble with compressing HDTV onto the disk?

[mhz40]

Originally posted by dclutter
Guys:  any news on when a HD - DirectTV - Tivo box will be available?  I have the go ahead from  my Boss to get one, she gets my old Tivo box?  I was at Flanners a week ago and talk to salerep and he said that they are having trouble with compressing HDTV onto the disk?

Why would one want to compress such a great video stream?  Besides, HD is only about 16-19 mb/s (2-2.375 mB/s).  Any hard drive should be able to sustain that kind of data rate...

[Gregg Lengling]

Actually if you do the math and record the whole stream (at least OTA ATSC), it takes around 10gBytes an hour.  There are 3 of us on this board that can tell you, because we've been recording programs for over a year.
:wave:

[mcq]

I saw a 300mb Hard drive for $220. That's room for apx. 30 hours!? I currently have a 120mb dedicated to recording. I can generally use the machine, (like right now) as I playback the HD signal. Once in a while the picture "breaks" up--(like when I change pages in the browser.)

[Gregg Lengling]

" saw a 300mb Hard drive for $220. That's room for apx. 30 hours!? I currently have a 120mb dedicated to recording"


I think typo maybe....you mean 300gb.....and 120gb......
:bang:

[mcq]

Originally posted by Gregg Lengling
" saw a 300mb Hard drive for $220. That's room for apx. 30 hours!? I currently have a 120mb dedicated to recording"


I think typo maybe....you mean 300gb.....and 120gb......
:bang:

OMG

I have been doing this computer crap for too long!!!!



The first hard drive I ever bought for a PC was 80mb at $300.....

That is MB not GB

[Gregg Lengling]

You haven't done it that long...my first hard drive for my Xerox 820 (cpm machine) was a 10Mbyte and it was as big as the computer itself.  Of course after formatting the drive I only had 6.9mb of usuable space...but back then 64k was a lot of memory and most programs were much smaller than that.....