All my recorded content is 720p. Am I doing something wrong or is that what the max resolution is?
The HDHR should record whatever resolution is actually broadcast.
I’m assume you are referring to the Prime?
It will record whatever is being broadcast by your cable provider. For example on Verizon FIOS I got a mixture of 720p and 1080i for the HD channels and 90% were mpeg2 video.
On Comcast/Xfinity I get mostly 720p H.264 channels with the exception of the big 4 local stations (ABC, NBC, CBS, etc) for HD channels. The H.264 codec based files are also heavily compressed. My gut feeling is they use these same files for their streaming live tv product.
So the prime will record whatever is sent by your cable company.
Interesting. I either need to talk with Comcast about that or it’s possible that Im not getting the best of quality because my internet and Hdhr shares the same coaxial cable from the wall and I split it there? I’m not 100% sure that the signal is degrades if you split it.
Your internet does not affect your live/recorded tv resolution, they are on separate frequencies. And in any case, signal degradation doesn’t affect resolution.
Further, ABC-owned stations (including ESPN) only broadcast in 720p. Networks aren’t broadcasting in 1080p, 1080i is the maximum.
If all you’re getting is 720p then that’s what you’re cable company is sending you.
Yes it is prime. And I have Comcast. All content recorded is 720p, never seen 1080i. I seem to see a big difference between in quality from recorded and live.
Thanks for the input from everyone. I think I might change the transcode quality to see if I like the quality a little bit more. Other wise I’ll have to live it haha.
720p, 1080i, and 1080p are all resolutions (screen size basically). What you’re probably seeing is a reduced bitrate meaning there is less data to fill the screen. I’m sure there’s a way to view the bitrate of the recordings I just don’t know what it is…
@darcilicious said:
720p, 1080i, and 1080p are all resolutions (screen size basically). What you’re probably seeing is a reduced bitrate meaning there is less data to fill the screen. I’m sure there’s a way to view the bitrate of the recordings I just don’t know what it is…
An easy way is to let it record and once added to a library bring up the “Get Info” on it. Then you can see the resolution, progressive vs interlaced as well as the bitrate and how many audio channels were present as well as many other things.
@Brandonwion said:
Thanks for the input from everyone. I think I might change the transcode quality to see if I like the quality a little bit more. Other wise I’ll have to live it haha.
If you have Transcode turned on in the DVR preferences with a prime using Comcast I’d recommend turning it off. Many of the channels you record from will be in H.264 already so you are telling Plex to transcode a stream that doesn’t need transcoding. You are hurting your quality by doing this.
The downside is that you will have a few mpeg2 streams on some channels that don’t get transcoded. These of course can be transcoded if needed while streaming to a client or you can post process them.
@Brandonwion said:
All my recorded content is 720p. Am I doing something wrong or is that what the max resolution is?
you’re out of luck. Comcast is broadcasting everything in 720p now. They started this a year ago and its all over their footprint.
your only option is to change providers if you have another choice.
That is pretty unfortunate that Comcast has changed to all 720p. I did not know that.
I saw that my device setting was already set to not transcode. Guess Ill have explore more settings to see if I can fix something to make it look better.
Looks like the bit rate of a show or movie is mpeg2 720p @3500 bit rate. But a football game is 14000. Strange.
