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Old 11-03-2011, 11:34   #4211
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Re: TiVo

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Originally Posted by Jameseh View Post
TV is broadcast in 1080i meaning a picture of 1440x1080 is broadcast, much less information that full 1920x1080. Plus a Blu Ray compressed to around 13mbps would hardly be noticeable, so 10mbps for Live TV is essentially as good as it will get.
1080i is still a 1920 x 1080 resolution frame, the i means interlaced (every other line on the screen is drawn on each pass) rather than progressive (every line is drawn on every pass).

1440x1080 is nothing to do with anything in broadcast TV - in fact, its not even the correct aspect ratio for widescreen TV (1440x1080 would be a 4:3 aspect ratio, not the 16:9 widescreen TV uses)
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