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:249783 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
