On Sat, March 17, 2007 7:53 pm, Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade wrote:
> On Mar 17, 2007, at 2:26 PM, Gus Wirth wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure why you want to buy another PVR-150. Although your
>> cable system will probably carry analog broadcasts for some time to
>> come, the future is digital. You can get a HD-5500 <http://
>> www.pchdtv.com> for $129 plus shipping and be able to receive NTSC
>> (analog), ATSC (over-the-air digital) and QAM (cable digital). It
>> is fully supported in Linux and will allow you to record HD shows
>> as well as standard definition.
>
> I've actually got the previous model (still never used, grr silly
> budgets), and the one thing I don't know is if they'll do hardware
> MPEG2 encoding for NTSC signals. Which, I suppose, leaves encoding
> for the host CPU...
>
> Gregory
>
>
Previous model of what? The HD-5500? Or the PVR-X50?
Gus is right that digital is the future. However, it is not necessarily
_my_ immediate future. Also, life is *much* simpler without a set-top box
from Cox.
A second card simply expands the capabilities of the system too much for
me to wait. A third, digital card can follow later, should I need it.
Analog cards will be useful for many, many years.
(Beside, one cannot ignore the possibility that DMR will be built into
digital ... or is it already?)
I hear ya on the budgets, brother. My wife steadily and effectively
opposed my working on the Myth box for more than 9 months ("we" had other
priorities) because she perceived it as a football-enhancing device. Now
that we have "Arthur" every afternoon for the 4-yr-old, the "Newshour"
recorded every Friday evening, and Valerie Plame before Henry Waxman's
committee, my little mother/political junkie can't thank me enough.
It's all a matter of framing the issue ;-)
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