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RE: Pace Twinview - First Impressions


  • To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
  • Subject: RE: Pace Twinview - First Impressions
  • From: "Kenneth Watt" <kwatt@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 11:42:25 +0100
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  • Reply-to: ukha_d@xxxxxxx

> I think what Kevin was alluding to is that, unlike a Tivo, the Pace
box
> doesn't have an MPEG encoding chip, only a decoder, as it saves the
> broadcast stream only.... to record at a different quality, it'd have
to
> decode the stream and re-MPEG it at a different bitrate, like Tivo
does.
>   (well, your Sky/ cable etc box does the decode from broadcast
stream,
> Tivo just does the re-encodes portion)

Fair enough, it's still a pile of poo compared with TiVo though! ;)

K.




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