[Beowulf] HDTV video file sizes

[Robert G. Brown]

On Tue, 29 May 2007, laytonjb at charter.net wrote:

> Good morning,
>
> I was doing some thinking over the weekend (while cooking ribs on the grill :)  ).
> Does anyone know who much data 1 hr. of HDTV produces? Let's try 720 for
> now and perhaps 1080. I'm looking for the file size if you store the whole thing
> in a single file.

Well, I didn't have any idea ten seconds ago, but now I know that one
hour should be roughly 3 GB.  (So a movie should be 5-6 GB.)

>
> Thanks!
>
> Jeff "I won't give up my sauce recipe" Layton
>
You're welcome!

   Rob "I'll trade you a lesson in Googlifying for your sauce recipe" Brown

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