On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 13:10 -0500, Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
> The cable companies are not required to provide HD resolution on the
> Firewire output. Most likely any HD content will be transcoded inside
> the cable box to, say, 480p before it's output over Firewire. As for
> viewing, that's totally independent of your cable box/Firewire setup.
> Since the recording are probably not going to be HD anyway, it really
> doesn't matter that you're going to be viewing them on a standard TV.
Except that the recording that I'm getting IS HD. People over on
avsforum have been capturing HD, unencrypted, over firewire since at
least October of 2003. And it's not just 480p. I've been getting 1080i
and 720p.
I'm wondering why you think my experience is not the norm...
-I
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