--- "Baudouin, Andrew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One problem with the card as it is only for OTA HDTV > broadcasts,
Problem? Feature! I don't have cable and I don't want cable, if I have to pay for programming I will never watch. Waiting it out for Eatel to rollout fiber to my neighborhood, so as to get more Internet bandwidth and pay much less for "cable" type programming. Hopefully, they will even offer selective programming, so I can pay for only what I want. I see your point, as LPB is the only current local HDTV broadcast I know of. _However_, all broadcast TV signal provider must upgrade to providing HTDTV signals by ~2007. And, the pcHDTV HD-3000 is open and friendly to Linux hackers. Not to mention that it can be tweaked to receive other signals as well. So, this is an opportunity to buy the pcHDTV HD-3000 before it becomes unavailable. > as it is > unable to decode any encrypted signals broadcast Technically, cable isn't "broadcast". ;) > by > your friendly local > cable company. > > Anyone care to wager whether or not Cox's local HDTV > is encrypted? I don't know for sure, but I'll bet they are. John > Andrew Baudouin > Applications Programmer > AWC, Incorporated > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -----Original Message----- > From: John Hebert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 11:23 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [brlug-general] pcHDTV HD-3000: Xmas geek > gift you might want to > give yourself before 7/2005 > > I'm subscribed to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] > mailing > list. Yesterday there was a post by John Gilmore > (http://www.toad.com/gnu/) about the pcHDTV HD-3000 > card ($190) which will be outlawed by the FCC in > July > 2005, as ridiculous as that sounds. Read his message > below for more. > > Get em while they're hot. > > John Hebert > PS: If there is a lot of interested in this card, we > could possibly get a bulk discount > (http://www.pchdtv.com/faq.php#faq0000004). > > > Message: 4 > Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 16:49:38 -0800 > From: John Gilmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [Discuss-gnuradio] pcHDTV HD-3000 card is > shipping; easy HDTV > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Message-ID: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > For people who want to decode HDTV in hardware > rather > than with GNU > Radio software, this board is now shipping. It does > NOT honor the > broadcast flag, and will therefore be illegal to > manufacture after > July, 2005 [if the FCC's power-grab for authority to > regulate how > receivers for radio signals are built is upheld by > the > courts]. > > GNU Radio is not a practical way to watch HDTV. It > takes a long time > to capture and decode the data stream -- like 40x as > long as the show, > last time we timed it. We built it to show that an > open source > implementation CAN work. We could speed it up in > various ways, but > we've had other things to do (like pushing the USRP > hardware out). > > This card IS a practical way to watch HDTV on Linux. > > It's supported > by MythTV and other free video and PVR (personal > video > recorder) > software. > > The HD-3000 card is only good for receiving analog > TV > and HDTV, as far > as I know. But the drivers are all open source, and > hardware is often > designed with "bypass" modes for debugging, which > disable entire > blocks of the chip (such as the ATSC decoder) and > permit raw signals > to be observed by software. There may well be a way > to configure > it to tune in and digitize other signals of > interest. > > This 5V PCI card costs $190 in single quantities, > with > volume > discounts available: > > http://www.pchdtv.com/hd_3000.html > > Here's more info about the lawsuit against the FCC's > "broadcast flag" > regulation, American Library Association v. FCC. > The > FCC not only > claims a power to dictate the design of receivers > (which it has never > claimed before), and then uses that power to dictate > what kinds of > equipment the reciver is 'permitted' to convey the > received signal to. > This 'permission' results in the FCC regulating a > wide > variety of > devices that can be plugged into a receiver. The > FCC > delayed imposing > rules that would outlaw GNU Radio, because they knew > they were on > shaky ground there. Librarians, consumer groups, > Public Knowledge, > lobbyists like the Center for Democracy and > Technology, and EFF sued: > > > http://www.eff.org/IP/Video/HDTV/?f=broadcastflag.html > > Here's more about the Broadcast Flag itself: > > http://www.eff.org/broadcastflag/ > > John > > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. > www.yahoo.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com
