On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, kevin thayer wrote: > And for the record, i think that the pvr cards are > really only useful when you have an old box lying > around and you want to make it a pvr. If you have even > a moderately fast box, why not buy a $30 capture card > and let it decode/encode in software?
Because you want to use 4-5 tuners at once to record in parallel? :) My bigger concern on the pvr/ivtv issue is that HDTV is here to stay (in the US) and coming (elsewhere). Semi on-topic, I wonder what the plans are in europe and asia-pac for the sdtv->hdtv transition. If it's pretty well staggered, then the pvr cards and ivtv will continue to have a long life. I happen to still have analog cable (one of the last few holdouts) and one reason is so that I can continue to add tuners as my, and my SO's watching interests evolve over time. Avoiding conflicts is key... ...the other reason is that the local cable company is actually my neighbor (we're on the same block two doors apart) and they gave the adjacent businesses and 2nd floor apartments free cable in perpetuity! This was in exchange for having completely ripped out our parking lot for a couple of months about eight years ago in order to lay all their shiny new digital cable. I fear moving to digital will mean they'll forget all about that arrangement... :) -brendan _______________________________________________ ivtv-devel mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-devel
