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Originally Posted by gadge
Well at the moment on our samsung v+ we have,
steptoe and son ride again,
two ronnies xmas special,
the desent hd,
and there is 66hrs left.
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AFAIK, all the currently used cable boxes do NOT reencode or recompress the data they recieve. When any current v+ "records" a programme or film, it merely saves the data stream sent to it from VM's head end.
The advantage of MP4 is (very simply put) that it can reproduce the same quality as Mp2 at a given bitrate, but using around half that bitrate. Will we see any increase in quality when VM switch to MP4? Probably not, They'll be looking at the fact that they can cram twice as many channels in.
We will have the advantage that the apparent storage capacity on the Tivo will be a lot higher than it would otherwise.