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To clear this message, click the red X in the upper left corner. Hardware Support Discussions related to using various hardware setups with SageTV products. Anything relating to capture cards, remotes, infrared receivers/transmitters, system compatibility or other hardware related problems or suggestions should be posted here. Yeah, I don't think USB 2.0 has a bandwidth problem with the HD-PVR. There might be a USB controller compatibility issue with the HD-PVR, and such issues might be more common with USB than PCI-e. But, I don't think it's clear what is causing HD-PVR instability.
USB controller problems might be some of it, but it could easily be a very small contributing factor. And I don't really get the clutter argument. You'll need an STB, component cables, and audio cables anyway. I don't think an internal card helps that much. Interesting - found the page on the Aver site, but the instruction/installation manual tab is not active yet. I am mostly curious at what rate it digitizes at.
Depending on what you read, the HD-PVR either maxes at 12 or 13.5 megabits per second. That's barely enough, in my opinion, considering OTA ATSC is around 20, the newest HD camcorders go up to almost 30, and most blu-rays average in the high 20's to low 30's, and can spike much higher, if my Sony player's info display is reliable. My STB happens to do 480i or 1080i, so I lock it to 1080i to minimize problems with my HD-PVR. Even at its best I think the HD-PVR is just adequate for HD. Most programs border on being a little soft and lacking in depth.
It would be great if this item could even digitize in the upper teens. I think that alone would make a huge difference, but I can't really tell from what I see on the website. Anyone hear any further info that tells what bitrate this unit can digitize at? Interesting - found the page on the Aver site, but the instruction/installation manual tab is not active yet.
I am mostly curious at what rate it digitizes at. Depending on what you read, the HD-PVR either maxes at 12 or 13.5 megabits per second.
That's barely enough, in my opinion, considering OTA ATSC is around 20, the newest HD camcorders go up to almost 30, and most blu-rays average in the high 20's to low 30's, and can spike much higher, if my Sony player's info display is reliable. My STB happens to do 480i or 1080i, so I lock it to 1080i to minimize problems with my HD-PVR. Even at its best I think the HD-PVR is just adequate for HD. Most programs border on being a little soft and lacking in depth. It would be great if this item could even digitize in the upper teens. I think that alone would make a huge difference, but I can't really tell from what I see on the website.
Anyone hear any further info that tells what bitrate this unit can digitize at? There are a few things to consider, though. Quote: the newest HD camcorders go up to almost 30, and most blu-rays average in the high 20's to low 30's, and can spike much higher You need to realize that Blu-ray is 1080p, whereas the HD-PVR is 1080i.
Again, not apples to apples. Generally you would expect 1080i to be roughly half the bitrate of 1080p.
Also, Blu-ray uses really high bitrates for another reason: To ensure no encoding artifacts. The other thing to consider is source material. Assuming you are using the HD PVR to record Cable or Satellite you have to realize that even the ATSC stream is going to be further compressed in order to maximize the number of HD channels the MVPD can fit in the limited amount of bandwidth available. Refer to this post on AVS Forums: So, assuming a 12 Mbps bitrate for an MPEG-2 stream, 12 Mbps for an H.264 is plenty. If anything, the HD PVR is not efficient enough, if there is such a thing. FiOS is a different beast, but so far there are a number of people on this board who use FiOS and there have been no complaints. The last thing I would like to point out is the difference between decoders.
Since OTA or QAM are MPEG-2, if we capture that stream using an ATSC or ClearQAM tuner, then an MPEG-2 codec is used to decode the stream, whereas an H.264/AVC codec is used to decode the HD PVR stream. Again, not apples to apples. I am mostly curious at what rate it digitizes at. Depending on what you read, the HD-PVR either maxes at 12 or 13.5 megabits per second. That's barely enough, in my opinion, considering OTA ATSC is around 20, the newest HD camcorders go up to almost 30, and most blu-rays average in the high 20's to low 30's, and can spike much higher, Anyone hear any further info that tells what bitrate this unit can digitize at? I am really tired of these ignorant posts. Seriously, isn't this like the 10th time someone has posted this about the HDPVR and it has had to be explained the differences.
As stated, the HDPVR only records in upto 1080i. At 13.5mbps, this would be equilavelent to a 27mbps h.264 1080P recording. The top of the line Canon Consumer Grade Camcorder (I am comparing consumer grade as that is what the HDPVR is as well consumer grade) Vixia HFS21, can only record at 24mbps at 1080P and the MSRP on that is $1400! Further, to compare MPEG2 to H.264 is like comparing a juiciness of an Apple vs an Orange. So people STOP COMPARING! Any loss in softness, has more to do with your software decoders and/or the digital to analog back to digital conversion than it does with the actual encoder. I am extremely pleased with the quality of video capture my HDPVR does when played back on my HD200 (hardware decoder0.
Please stop making these comparisons to bit-rates as all they keep doing is causing others to believe there is a difference which in turn causes more of these posts to pop up. Even at its best I think the HD-PVR is just adequate for HD. Most programs border on being a little soft and lacking in depth. It would be great if this item could even digitize in the upper teens. I think that alone would make a huge difference, but I can't really tell from what I see on the website.
Between my R5000 and my HD PVR, the only way to reliably tell which recorded a show (off Dish) is to look at the recording details. There is no obvious, consistent difference in quality between the two. Even at 96' of 1080p. And my R5000 recordings are significantly smaller than my HD PVR ones. Quote: Also, Blu-ray uses really high bitrates for another reason: To ensure no encoding artifacts. This is one reason, but there's another, much bigger reason the bitrates on BD are so high: Because they can be.
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Most movies these days are on BD-50's, so the only limits on bitrate are that it fit inside 50GB and under the max bitrate (40Mbps for video, 48Mbps for the whole mux IIRC). That's pretty easy. The encoding houses just leave the bitrate extra high so there's less work to do tuning the encoding.
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Make no mistake, you could get the same quality as BD in much less space if needed (HD DVD was the same quality in 40% less space), but to do that takes more work, tuning the encode. High bitrates on BD are higher than necessary to save work/money on the encode.