Record DTV in non-HD Format?

[Jim5506]

One hour OTA 1080i is about 6.5GB one hour recorded off HDNET is about 4.5 GB. One hour satellite SD is about 1GB.

[kb7oeb]

OTA HD is MPEG2 the same as Dish Mpeg2 and just like dish channels the stream is recorded directly so it entirely depends on the channel.

OTA 1080i is full 1920, usually a higher bitrate so will take up more space than dish channels.

From my area in one hour chunks:
1080i HD, no subs 8GB
1080i HD, 1 sub, 6.5 to 7 GB
720p FOX 4.5GB per hour (no subs, the stream is full of null packets)
720p ABC , 1 sub 6GB
480i sub channel 1.6GB

[bnewt]

I have an S-Video line run out of my 622 into my DVD recorder, records very good 480p picture quality in 16X9. About as close to HD as you're going to get.

Do you set this up as a timer for the dvd recorder? If so do you still get a recording? When I had my 625 connected to a dvd recorder via s-video, I did not get a picture on the recording, but I did using the composite connection (red,white,yellow). Thought it had something to do with the copyright infringement.

[JimK2]

Good to know about the OTA tuner being full HD. But can the 622 record a DTV broadcast and not suck up all the internal DVR disk space of full HD recording?

The Vip 622 does not do any transcoding but records the transport stream as sent from satellite.