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
> >
> >
>
> 

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