Ah, so the mandate for the Broadcast Flag was thrown out
by the courts. I hadn't heard that.
http://www.eff.org/IP/broadcastflag/
This is indeed good news. Bully for the EFF!
--
Allen Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.peak.org/~abrown/
Resisting temptation is easier when you think
you'll probably get another chance later on.
Michael Miller wrote:
If you going to spend $128 you might as well pay an extra dollar for a
HD-5500 ( http://www.pchdtv.com/ ).
The HD-5500 is a fully Linux supported video capture card that does
software encoding/decoding. This card does not and will not support
the broadcast flag.
I have a HD-3000 card and enjoy it.
Mike Miller
On 9/4/06, Brian Gallagher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I see that WinTV PVR 350 is $128 at Mwave. That doesn't seem too bad a
price. I just want to view OPB programs and maybe be able to save some
to DVD. Is this doable?
Is MPEG2 good enough to playback a Nature show with some quality? I'm
tired of the flaky video quality experience.
Mr O wrote:
> The latest MythTV (0.19) raves about the capabilities of the 350
> (nice TV out). The 350 is the *only* Hauppauge card with
> HARDWARE encoding and DECODING. The 150 and the 250 are the same
> in features supporting only hardware encoding. I believe the 150
> is just a cheaper PCB.
>
> I'm hoping to *finally* setup a MythTV box with my ATI HDTV
> Wonder in the next few weeks. My primary purpose isn't for TV
> though since I don't watch the stuff. I'd like to be able to rip
> my DVD collection and be able to browse and watch anything I
> want with proper surround sound and a properly scaled picture
> on my little plasma via VGA or Component input. Time will tell
> if I get it done soon or not.
>
> That be all,
> Mr O.
>
>
> --- Ben Barrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>> I thought that benefit of the wintv-pvr model# 350 was also a
>> major gripe --
>> if I read right (disclaimer: somewhere, a while ago!) you can
>> *only* get
>> mpeg2 video out of this card... does anyone have one and know
>> if you can get
>> the raw video, to do your own encoding with? That is, as
>> opposed to
>> decoding the mpeg2 stream, then re-encoding it (yuck, with the
>> mpeg2
>> artifacts, although I guess you could set that to the highest
>> quality)...
>> so if this is true, it would depend on your desired usage.
>> NewEgg doesn't
>> seem to carry the 350, although they have various 150 models
>> ($53-$85), with
>> and without remotes. Even a low-profile 150 model, nice!
>> Amazon has the
>> 350 for $134. The model# 500 has dual mpeg encoders&tuners.
>>
>> cheerio,
>>
>> Ben
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