Me too. But I am not sure the video quality ramifications of recording analogue or if digital set-top-boxes have a way of downrezzing the video quality if it's being recorded.
I mean... how can it? Your HDTV receives the component video and plays it back flawlessly, right?
I just wonder if devices like this will bring us one step closer to the ICT flag being activated.
But you see... THIS is exactly what I'm talking about when I have criticized Sony and Blu-ray in the past.
Do you think Sony or the BDA wants you making your own AVC discs on DVD? Not on your life! If they could stop you better believe they would.
Back in the day Sony might have developed a box like this. But not now. It's because Sony is a studio now, it doesn't care to push the limits of technology and wow-factor to give people cool electronics.
But it used to? It's
Sony vs Universal and it went all the way to the supreme court and gave us the concept of "fair use". Recording TV on a VCR was considered
fair use and was declared legal and that decision is used to this day to defend MP3 players and anyone who wants to back-up their CDs, DVDs or recorded HDTV. Legally it constitutes
fair use.
Back in those days Sony was a ground-breaking disturber of the
stuff.
Nowadays it's groups like
Hauppauge,
TiVo and
Sling Media that fill that void.
That's why I love these companies!
