[Tig] OT TiVo (was: Re: Is packaged media close to end of life?)

[TSassoon at aol.com]

In a message dated 1/8/08 5:41:53 AM, rob at colorist.org writes:

> does it take baseband video
> 


Typically these things save the streaming MPEG-2 files to disk as-is, so data 
size is pretty much determined at the transmitter. Most stations now are 
multicasting, which subdivides their 19.3 Mb/s allocation. A main DT-1 720p feed 
can be 12-15 Mb/s, while the DT-2 SD can be drastically lower, way under 1 
GB/hour, and a DT-3 weather page so bit-starved that it would be useless for 
full-motion video. KABC-DT is a good example thereof.

I strongly recommend buying one of the new USB stick ATSC tuners. That, a bit 
of software and a small UHF antenna is all you need. And a computer, of 
course. Pinnacle on Windows, and Elgato on Mac are the most popular. Elgato's EyeTV 
PVR software now supports multiple tuners, will set up an iPhone web app for 
worldwide access to your recorded programs (auto re-encodes them to a smaller 
AVC file), etc; it's pretty slick.



Tim Sassoon
SFD vfx & creative post
Santa Monica, CA






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