I've got nothing but good stuff to say about my HDHomerun. When it's not being used by my myth machine, I use it to stream HD video to my MacBook while I'm sitting on the back porch.
On Jan 4, 2008 1:20 PM, J W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > HD on homebrew HTPC's is a mess right now. All sorts of issues. Check > Hauppauge's website for current capture cards. Content protection is messed > up so there are HD channels that you can capture and channels that you can > record, based on the content flag. Its ugly. On my explorer 8300HD box I can > capture some channels through the firewire port, other channels I can't. I > use a Hauppauge hvr-1600. Those cards actually have hardware encoding, like > the PVR 150/250. If you go with the USB stick OTA HD cards (hvr-950 or one > of its MANY rebranded products) you will be letting your CPU do the bulk of > the encoding slowing your machine down. Can kill a cpu with HD content. > > Jeff > > On Jan 4, 2008 12:22 PM, Rick Root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On a similar related topic.... (not intending to hijack the topic, but > > you reminded me that I meant to post something like this) > > > > If I wanted to use Windows Media Center with an HD satellite receiver, > > I'd need something with some kind of HD input in order to use it as a > > DVR .... is there such a capture card? > > > > Rick > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:249789 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
