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Capacity listings for all qualities and drive sizes

Is there some place that lists the capacities for *ALL* quality recording levels with all (or at least most) of the drive sizes people have been using for upgrades? I don't think it is in the FAQs. When someone mentions they have 50hrs of movies at high quality (on a "108hr unit"), this doesn't mean a whole lot to people who don't have an upgraded unit with the same amount of hours.

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If you go to the screen that lets you pick your default recording level, you can get a list of all the sizes you have available. I think that's what you're really wanting, right?


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No. I want to see how many hours are available at different quality levels FOR UNITS UPGRADED WITH DIFFERENT SIZE DRIVES. Don't know if I'm making this clear. I know how to find the capacities for my unit. I'd like a listing of all the other possibilities IN ONE LIST. For example, 14hr, 30hr, 52hr, 7xhr, 9xhr, 10xhr, etc, are all the different hours at basic. I'd like to see a compiled list of each of those with their respective "other quality levels" listed.

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Originally posted by Otto:
If you go to the screen that lets you pick your default recording level, you can get a list of all the sizes you have available. I think that's what you're really wanting, right?

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Good question - and the answer should probably be added to the faq...

I browsed through some of the old messages where people had stated how much recording time they received at Basic, Medium, High, and Best with their different Tivos - stock and upgraded...

After collecting that information, it's not too hard to come up with some math that will allow you to calculate recording times based on the hard drive size. So, I came up with the following:

Basic: 1.2 Hours/GB
Medium: 0.7 Hours/GB
High: 0.55 Hours/GB
Best: 0.35 Hours/GB

Those numbers seem to be pretty much on - the Basic and Medium rates are actually a little low when you start getting to the bigger upgraded systems... A better factor would be a Hours/GB minus the GBs that the Tivo filesystem, etc. takes up... But for general purposes I think this would fit more people's needs...

I also came up with a nice little table, that I have posted below... However, since HTML is turned off for this UBB, you'll have to cut and paste it into another file to view it - or maybe someone can add it to their Tivo hack page...

Later,
Brad

EDIT BY Otto:
Sorry, I found that HTML code annoying as heck, plus it screwed with the browser. Here's a text readable version:

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Quality   Hours/GB   14 Hour   30 Hour   52 Hour   70 Hour   91 Hour   108 Hour
                    (13.6 GB) (27.8 GB) (43.6 GB) (57.2 GB) (73.6 GB)  (87.2 GB) 
Basic       1.2       16.32     32.64     52.32     68.64     88.32     104.64 
Medium      0.7        9.52     19.04     30.52     40.04     51.52      61.04 
High        0.55       7.48     14.96     23.98     31.46     40.48      47.96 
Best        0.35       4.76      9.52     15.26     20.02     25.76      30.52 

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No problem Otto - forgot about the "code" UBB tag... Thanks!

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Thanks a bunch! That was exactly what I was looking for! Saved it to a file on my Casio E115.

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