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02-25-2005, 09:38 AM
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The "correct" quality for recording TV?
What's the "correct" setting for recording TV(cable) broadcasts?
Wouldn't recording at "DVD Quality" produce the same "quality" image as "Good", since the source is much less than DVD quality? rwc 
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02-25-2005, 10:18 AM
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You may want to try a few settings to see which one is OK for you. - Andy
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02-25-2005, 10:51 PM
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Thak you for bringing up the topic. Attached is a PDF "Chart" that may make it easier. Not my numbers - thanks to those (Narflex and Opus4) who originally posted it. All I did was make it easily printable to refer to it when planning to record a show that will be burned to a CD/DVD.
Rob
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02-25-2005, 11:05 PM
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DVD Standard or Best. If you decide to get a ConvertX, then DivX High or Highest are very near equivalent quality with a good bit less disk space.
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02-28-2005, 11:19 AM
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NTSC is analog, there are no pixels. It's 525 lines displayed with a framerate of 29.97Hz interlaced, and a scan rate of 15.7kHz. Of that 480 lines actaully contain picture information and each line contains picture info such that it creates a 4:3 picture. There are no pixels so there is no "correct resolution" to record at.
DVDs are 720x480, SVCDs are 480x480, lots of programs capture at 640x480 because it's "4:3", but when talking pixels, NTSC is non-square (.9:1) which calcs out to be 704x480. If anything is a "standard", or "correct", it would be 720x480 since that's what both DVDs and SD DTV use, but in reality the only thing that matters is if the resolution you choose looks good, and works well with what you use.
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03-02-2005, 10:36 AM
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I use DVD-Standard. Anything lower is noticeably worse. If I plan to edit, cut, recompress, convert to DivX or save in some fashion, I use MPEG2 Max if I know ahead of time that I'll keep it. I would want to start with the best picture possible, and MPEG2 Max is so good, that I no longer use my generic Conexant analog capture card. MJPEG3 and HuffyUV are no longer needed.
YMMV -Robert
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