First screen & 2nd in my comparison
MPEG-TS (AVC) removing grain - MPEG-TS (MPEG-2) keep grain
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/151114
Settings in recording or something else?1080i HDTV MPEG2 DD2.0-CtrlHD
http://www.imagebam.com/image/be6b57368563075
http://www.imagebam.com/image/ee2aa5368562954Why CtrlHD Team not use new codec AVC, or MPEG2 keep grain?
In which codecs is your records?We need someone here who can explain these things.
What about to start new topic for improving HDTV recordings, tips & unexpected things?
But I need to leave it to someone else.
The recording that I’m displaying is exactly like what I’m receiving. I don’t think you’re understanding that, here in the US, ALL cable companies receive the signal from the channel. In this case, HBO sends Time Warner Cable the signal. Time Warner Cable THEN re-encodes the signal and sends it to people’s homes. As we all know, encoding is not kind to grain or detail and that’s why you get loss of both because we use MPEG-2, which is out-dated but they refuse to make a drastic change.
However, I’m sure that HBO GO is MPEG-4/AVC and it looks the same as what I just showed you.
So this is all moot. Unless someone can encode from the original signal which, here in the US, can only happen from FIOS, the 720p will have to do, unfortunately. But, again, the 1080i looks fine, as does the AMC. And no one complained when I first did that. We just didn’t have an uncompressed/raw file to compare it to. That was my point in showing the comparison.