If Mike wants HD: Tivo does't have a HD ready box for cable yet (dont know about OTA, but I searched and couldn't find any). HD-Tivo is only available from dish/direct (sat. companies) -- they are only selling it, not renting it AFAIK (price is $600 ??).
Cable companies are supplying their own HD-DVR (time warner, comcast, etc) ($8-10/month rental .. on top of exorbitant cable charges) On 6/22/05, Michael T. Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kelly wrote: > > >>Third, if possible I'd like the HD out to be both DVI and component if that > >>is possible. > >> > >> > >DVI will not get you 1080i > > > > > Should work... Single-link DVI has a maximum resolution of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (double the frame rate of 1080p30 and effectively double > 1080i) while a dual-link DVI connection has a maximum resolution of > [EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Straight from the horse's mouth at > http://www.ddwg.org/dvi.html ) > > Note, also, that HDMI's video connection is--for all practical > purposes--DVI-D single link. And, HDMI was designed for ATSC High Def > signal transfer. > > >>If you could suggest the most user friendly hardware to get this project > >>going, I would be very appreciative. > >> > >> > >Tivo > > > > > Agreed. If you just want an easy solution, go TiVo. If you're doing it > to learn about Linux, video, audio, MPEG (2 and 4 and perhaps eventually > 7), NTSC, ATSC, ALSA, and much, much more, go MythTV. Or, if you're > really lucky, find a friend who wants a MythTV box and wants to learn > and have him/her build two. :) > > Mike > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
