Re: Compatibility, LP-Mode

[Guido Fiala <gfiala@s.netic.de>]

>Another question:
>As far as I see, data rate is about 3-5 Mbit/s. That would be about 20
>hours on 40 GByte. Am I right? 

18 hours for sure.

>Commercially availible DVR do have some means to select quality, usually
>in three levels equivalent to DVD, VHS, VHS-LP. Does anybody know how
>they do this? They don`t decode/code I guess. 
>
> How can a MPEG2 stream be further compressed in realtime?
> Does anybody do this here? Does the card have hardware support on this?
>
>What about recoding afterwords? Does anybody have a bigger archive in
>lower quality? Degradation surly looks diffrent than with analog LP.
>What amount of lower quality video is realistic on 40GB?

Does that matters: 40 GB (Maxtor) do cost only DM 370,- now (i banged my head
at the desk not to have waited one further month ;-)