Thread: General Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2018)
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Old 26-09-2018, 18:24   #2272
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2018)
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Originally Posted by japitts View Post
Really not sure what I think about this. Yes of course 90% of the time I record in HD given the choice, but particularly if you have extended holiday it can be useful to have the option of dropping series-links to SD to increase storage space.

A couple of years ago I was abroad for 6weeks over christmas, and dropping everything except serial drama & natural-history stuff to SD made the difference between an overflowing box and "getting away with it".
Remember that since then the HD channels have been moved to MPEG4 whilst the SD channels are still MPEG2.

So although there is a difference between the two, HD takes up a lot less disk space than it did and if you did the same again, you'd probably be fine with the six weeks in HD now.
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