Talk:PDTV
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PDTV has also been seen on semi-professional DVD releases found at fan conventions and on the internet. In this case, PDTV is not intended to stand for "Pure Digital Television", since the source material for these DVDs is almost always analog, such as VHS.
So what DOES it stand for in this case? Is it the name of a specific group of fans who produce these DVDs? --Msgohan 22:44, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] DSRip vs. PDTV
Both are the same right? Digital source, less than HD resolution?
- No, a DSRip involves an analog conversion step, i.e. the S-video (or worse, composite/RCA) output of a satellite receiver connected to a PC capture card. PDTV and HDTV rips are fully digital, transcoding the MPEG-2 data sent by the satellite provider directly to the final format. --Msgohan 19:36, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
- Well "Digital Satellite Rip" is misleading then, since it the analog step via S-VHS has much bigger impact on the video quality than the fact that the signal is coming from a digital receiver. Whether the it is from an analog or digital transponder is totally irrelevant.
- Not really; I don't think you'd be saying that if you'd seen the old analog satellite wildfeed rips Scene groups used to do, heh... But at any rate, these are the terms in common use so there's no sense arguing about them. Digital->analog "DSRips" preceded the availability of DVB tuner cards, so when it did become possible to transcode the actual data stream, a new label had to be invented. --Msgohan 08:54, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
- Hm yeah, that makes sense of course. Thanks!
- Not really; I don't think you'd be saying that if you'd seen the old analog satellite wildfeed rips Scene groups used to do, heh... But at any rate, these are the terms in common use so there's no sense arguing about them. Digital->analog "DSRips" preceded the availability of DVB tuner cards, so when it did become possible to transcode the actual data stream, a new label had to be invented. --Msgohan 08:54, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
- Well "Digital Satellite Rip" is misleading then, since it the analog step via S-VHS has much bigger impact on the video quality than the fact that the signal is coming from a digital receiver. Whether the it is from an analog or digital transponder is totally irrelevant.
