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TV Program Collection.

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[1] http://www.sevenforums.com/media-center/76521-tv-tuners-what-file-format-can-i-burn-dvd.html

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Using Windows 7 Media Center = .WTV format
If you use Windows 7 Media Center Edition to run your tuners, then it will record the file in a new format: WTV. Not many converters know how to handle WTV since it is new to Windows 7. There is an option when you right click on a file, to convert it to .dvr-ms format, the older one that many of the converters DO support.

I right click and convert to .dvr-ms. I then load that into VideoRedo, remove commercials, and then save as .MPG. I then can use traditional DVD authoring apps to convert to .VOB and burn to DVD.

Regards,

Gayle Snedecor

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Windows Live DVD Burner burns usable DVDs off of whatever format Media Center records them into... It sems to be a 2 pass operation, the first I assume is a conversion.

Use it with Movie Maker, which I use to remove commercials (or split where you want to), and you even get indexing to jump to where each split in your configuration is. After seeing what I can do with standard Windows tools, I am not bothering to upgrade my Nero. I rarely use the copy of version 8 that I have.

Video Knowledge

[1] http://hometheater.about.com/cs/television/a/aavideoresa_2.htm

Digital TV Resolution Standards
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The three vertical scan line systems used in digital TV are 480p (480 lines vertically scanned in a progressive fashion), 720p (720 lines vertically scanned in a progressive fashion), and 1080i (1,080 lines scanned in an interlaced fashion).


NTSC
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NTSC is based on a 525-line, 60 fields/30 frames-per-second, at 60Hz system for transmission and display of video images.

PAL
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PAL is the dominant format in the World for analog television broadcasting and video display and is based on a 625 line, 50 field/25 frames a second, 50HZ system.

Video format with horizontal resolution estimates:


Resolution (vertical, horizontal)
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The number of scan lines, or vertical resolution, of NTSC/PAL/SECAM are constant in that all analog video recording and display equipment conforms to the above standards.

However, in addition to vertical scan lines, the amount of dots displayed within each line on the screen contributes to a factor known as horizontal resolution which can vary






-VHS/VHS-C 220 - 240 lines
-S-VHS/S-VHSC 400 lines
-DVD-R/-RW/+R/+RW 250 - 400+ lines (Depends on recording mode and compression used)
-miniDV 400 - 520 lines
-Analog TV Broadcast 330 lines
-Analog Cable TV 330 lines
-Standard Digital Cable
330 - 500 lines (Depends on original source of the signal and compression used in downloading to the cable box)
-Commercial DVD Up to 540 lines
-BETA 250 lines
-8mm 250 - 280 lines
-SuperBETA 270 - 280 lines
-Laserdisc 400 - 425 lines
-Hi8 380 - 440 lines
-Digital 8 400 - 500 lines
-microMV 500 lines
-ED BETA 500 lines