Analogue Vs Digital

[Hollywood H0gan]

So recording SD and HD Tv shows to a digital set top box with HDD is digital
and yet recording the same thing to a DVD Recorder is classed as analogue ?
I'm confused....



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Cheers. Slattery (H0llyw00d H0gan). Running on The Internet Group at 56k.

[Hugh Jorgan]

I think it's cos you can't input a digital signal to a DVDR. I could be
wrong...
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Hugh Jorgan

"Hollywood H0gan" <nospam@forgetit.com.au> wrote in message
news:cbrt5k$4cp$3@lust.ihug.co.nz...
> So recording SD and HD Tv shows to a digital set top box with HDD is
digital
> and yet recording the same thing to a DVD Recorder is classed as analogue
?
> I'm confused....
>
>
>
> --
> Cheers. Slattery (H0llyw00d H0gan). Running on The Internet Group at 56k.
>
>

[Hugh Jorgan]

I think it's cos you can't input a digital signal to a DVDR. I could be
wrong...
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Hugh Jorgan

"Hollywood H0gan" <nospam@forgetit.com.au> wrote in message
news:cbrt5k$4cp$3@lust.ihug.co.nz...
> So recording SD and HD Tv shows to a digital set top box with HDD is
digital
> and yet recording the same thing to a DVD Recorder is classed as analogue
?
> I'm confused....
>
>
>
> --
> Cheers. Slattery (H0llyw00d H0gan). Running on The Internet Group at 56k.
>
>

[flyinyereye]

"Hollywood H0gan" <nospam@forgetit.com.au> wrote in message
news:cbrt5k$4cp$3@lust.ihug.co.nz...
> So recording SD and HD Tv shows to a digital set top box with HDD is
digital
> and yet recording the same thing to a DVD Recorder is classed as analogue
?
> I'm confused....

DVD recorders only have analogue tuners (so far), so you're only recording
an analogue signal, with all its inherent flaws such as ghosting etc. They
also compress the recordings to whatever setting you've chosen so obviously
four hours on a single DVD will look like crap.

Recording on a digital STB records the pure digital broadcast stream
perfectly with no loss of resolution or quality.

[flyinyereye]

"Hollywood H0gan" <nospam@forgetit.com.au> wrote in message
news:cbrt5k$4cp$3@lust.ihug.co.nz...
> So recording SD and HD Tv shows to a digital set top box with HDD is
digital
> and yet recording the same thing to a DVD Recorder is classed as analogue
?
> I'm confused....

DVD recorders only have analogue tuners (so far), so you're only recording
an analogue signal, with all its inherent flaws such as ghosting etc. They
also compress the recordings to whatever setting you've chosen so obviously
four hours on a single DVD will look like crap.

Recording on a digital STB records the pure digital broadcast stream
perfectly with no loss of resolution or quality.

[Stephen Neal]

Hollywood H0gan wrote:
> So recording SD and HD Tv shows to a digital set top box with HDD is
> digital and yet recording the same thing to a DVD Recorder is classed
> as analogue ? I'm confused....

If your Digital Set Top Box contains a Hard Drive then it is likely to be
recording the digital stream as broadcast by the broadcasters - so your
replay will be identical to the original broadcast - with no quality loss at
SDTV or HDTV.

AIUI there are no current DVD recorders with either SDTV or HDTV tuners or
inputs at the MPEG2 digital level (though some have standard definition
analogue RGB inputs - at least in the UK, and in the US there are DVHS VCRs
that accept MPEG2 directly from HDTV and SDTV tuners via Firewire - which is
not to be confused with the DV over Firewire that some DVD recorders
accept...) - and there is no HDTV DVD recording standard on the market yet.
Therefore any recording made on a commercial DVD recorder will have to have
been through a further MPEG2 encoding process - with a quality drop.

(It is possible to make SDTV recordings on a PC with a digital TV card and
convert these losslessly to a format you can burn with a PC DVD burner
though - with no quality loss)

Steve

[bassett]

Regardless of what you might think 95% of transmissions entering the TV
tuner are analogue...
Bassett steps back to avoid the Bluster and Blast.

You might well have a digital set-top box to decode the digital terrestrial
signal, But it converts to analogue, before its enters the TV Tuner, There
is no such animal as a digital DVD recorder, There is a recorder that
records in analogue as there is a VCR that does the same, Try connecting,
the DVD-R directly to the terrestrial signal and see what you get, or if
your one of the 5% that owns a fully digital TV receiver [no set-top box
required ] Try hooking the DVD -R or VCR up to it and see what you get..

And if you want to take it one stage further, all this Bull about Digital
Foxtell, while the signal might be a digital transmission which it always
was from day one, the signal entering the TV set from the Satellite receiver
is Analogue, Full digital satellite receivers start at about 8k if you can
find one..Then everything else must also be digital format..
bassett

"flyinyereye" <spam@spam.com> wrote in message
news:40e17e0b$0$24771$5a62ac22@per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au...
> "Hollywood H0gan" <nospam@forgetit.com.au> wrote in message
> news:cbrt5k$4cp$3@lust.ihug.co.nz...
> > So recording SD and HD Tv shows to a digital set top box with HDD is
> digital
> > and yet recording the same thing to a DVD Recorder is classed as
analogue
> ?
> > I'm confused....
>
> DVD recorders only have analogue tuners (so far), so you're only recording
> an analogue signal, with all its inherent flaws such as ghosting etc. They
> also compress the recordings to whatever setting you've chosen so
obviously
> four hours on a single DVD will look like crap.
>
> Recording on a digital STB records the pure digital broadcast stream
> perfectly with no loss of resolution or quality.
>
>