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<blockquote data-quote="TeeSeeJay" data-source="post: 712508" data-attributes="member: 9969">First off all, you will never be recording uncompressed HDTV to a PVR. Not even today's SDTV PVRs record uncompressed video.Secondly, chances are strongly against your ability to record HDTV AT ALL. For much the same reason as HD audio devices lack a digital output, new generations of HDTV devices will use the DVI interconnect, capable of encrypting the signal and preventing the recording thereof. (either DVI or encrypted IEEE1394).That means that when ABC broadcasts Hit Movie in 720p, they can flag it as &quot;unrecordable.&quot;&nbsp; Same with HBO when they show LOTR:FOTR:EE:HD. Same as the HD-DVD of that same movie.So, the Terabyte drive as the answer to your HDTV prayers? Not likely.The only thing known to man today that records HDTV, D-VHS, does it with MPEG2 (just like a DVD), and fits 4 hours on a single cassette at it's highest quality. Why do you need a TB hard disk? Oh yeah, because tape sucks -- and I agree with you there.Edit:&nbsp; In case you want to argue that with big enough hard drives, we won't need to compress the video, keep in mind that Concern Number One will be fitting an HD movie onto the same size disc we're all used to. Red laser, blue laser, whatever -- one thing's for certain, we ain't going back to 12&quot; laserdiscs.&nbsp; The likely #1 source of your HDTV viewing, HD-DVD, will be compressed when you buy it. Over the air? compressed when they send it. A &quot;Channel&quot; is only a 6mhz band. They already squeeze two-to-four &quot;channels&quot; into one of these bands if you have digital cable, and the only way they can get HDTV to you is to compress it. Same with satellite.So why would you be interested in recording uncompressed HDTV, even if you could? You've already lost anything you're going to lose, because it's been heavily compressed before it ever got to you.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TeeSeeJay, post: 712508, member: 9969"] First off all, you will never be recording uncompressed HDTV to a PVR. Not even today's SDTV PVRs record uncompressed video. Secondly, chances are strongly against your ability to record HDTV AT ALL. For much the same reason as HD audio devices lack a digital output, new generations of HDTV devices will use the DVI interconnect, capable of encrypting the signal and preventing the recording thereof. (either DVI or encrypted IEEE1394). That means that when ABC broadcasts Hit Movie in 720p, they can flag it as "unrecordable." Same with HBO when they show LOTR:FOTR:EE:HD. Same as the HD-DVD of that same movie. So, the Terabyte drive as the answer to your HDTV prayers? Not likely. The only thing known to man today that records HDTV, D-VHS, does it with MPEG2 (just like a DVD), and fits 4 hours on a single cassette at it's highest quality. Why do you need a TB hard disk? Oh yeah, because tape sucks -- and I agree with you there. Edit: In case you want to argue that with big enough hard drives, we won't need to compress the video, keep in mind that Concern Number One will be fitting an HD movie onto the same size disc we're all used to. Red laser, blue laser, whatever -- one thing's for certain, we ain't going back to 12" laserdiscs. The likely #1 source of your HDTV viewing, HD-DVD, will be compressed when you buy it. Over the air? compressed when they send it. A "Channel" is only a 6mhz band. They already squeeze two-to-four "channels" into one of these bands if you have digital cable, and the only way they can get HDTV to you is to compress it. Same with satellite. So why would you be interested in recording uncompressed HDTV, even if you could? You've already lost anything you're going to lose, because it's been heavily compressed before it ever got to you. [/QUOTE]

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