* Alvin Oga ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [041228 13:39]:
> 
> 
> On Tue, 28 Dec 2004, jeff elkins wrote:
> 
> > I recently acquired a 60 inch LCD HDTV system, which has vga input - great 
> > for 
> > games and such, but living where I live OTA HDTV is not happening! It's 
> > HDTV 
> > via DISH-TV or DirecTV or none at all. My understanding is that MythTV and 
> > other linux-based systems only capture over-the-air HDTV -- no cable or 
> > dish.
> 
> that'd depend on your tv capture card
>       - you should be able to feed your cable into your card
>       and get ntsc or svga or svideo or rgb (best)
> 
> most cards after Dec 31, 2004 will no longer be legally able to 
> record hdtv signals ( silly broadcast flag by the broadcast industry )

According to the EFF, the cutoff is actually July 2005, so you have a
few months yet.

good times,
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