HDTV in h264 or MPEG2? (1 Viewer)

jmcentire

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I will make this short and to the point for you:

I thought HDTV is supposed to be recorded in h264...however all of my recorded hd content is in MPEG2....am I missing something?

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    Nope, not missing a thing, HD can be either, does depend on bandwidth available for the transmission though, but then the broadcasters have a habit of knocking the bitrate down on mpeg files to decrease the size, so some people still get poor quality HD :(
     

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