S3 Recording Quality

Looking at Megazone's S3 FAQ, based on hours, it looks like bit rates for

S3 Basic could be very close to or slightly better than original S2 Basic
S3 Medium could be around S2 High or better
S3 High could be S2 Best or better
S3 Best could be close to 7.5-8Mb/sec, ie. ~ 1.5X S2 Best

Resoultions are not yet known. Conversion to bit rates will be done later...

(updated 10/19/06)

Quote:

Originally Posted by MegaZone's FAQ

How many hours of analog recordings can the S3 store at the different quality levels?

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                           Level  Hours:Minutes
                           Best    52:00
                           High    76:24
                           Medium 120:12
                           Basic  303:50

How does the capacity of the S3 compare to other TiVos?

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                           Model            GB  Best  High   Medium Basic 
                           TiVo Series3     250 52:00 76:24  120:12 303:50 
                           Humax T2500      250 85:54 137:41 181:23 301:51 
                           Toshiba RS-TX20  120 32    46     94     141 
                           Pioneer DVR-810H 80  16    30     62     93 
                           TiVo Series2DT   80  25:20 40:05  52:32  86:51

Quote:

Originally Posted by MegaZone

This makes it clearer - GB/hour, full explanation is in the Review.

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                           Model            GB  Best High Medium Basic 
                           TiVo Series3     250 4.81 3.27 2.08   0.82 
                           Humax T2500      250 2.91 1.82 1.38   0.83 
                           Toshiba RS-TX20  120 4.50 2.61 1.28   0.85 
                           Pioneer DVR-810H 80  5.00 2.67 1.29   0.86 
                           TiVo Series2DT   80  3.16 2.00 1.52   0.92