[Sussex] BBC2's working lunch next week

[Mark Harrison (Groups)]

Andrew Guard wrote:

>I dont have that problem, Sky +, no reencoding it just records the digital stream as it broadcast.
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An an excercise for the reader, compare the digital encoding quality of 
Sky broadcasts compared to a local HDD rip of an analogue broadcast.

HINT: Sky's encoding is optimised to allow very large numbers of 
channels to be fitted into the available multiplexes, not to preserve 
quality.

>The only problems it a system contralled by Sky and you can not back up
>content.
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A problem, yes. The "only problem", oh definitely not.