On Mon, 2005-12-26 at 17:49 -0800, Ian Forde wrote: > On Mon, 2005-12-26 at 18:11 -0600, Kevin Kuphal wrote: > > There are two ways to capture HDTV. > > > > 1) OTA with an HDTV tuner card > > 2) via Firewire from a cable box like the Motorola DCT-6200 (IIRC). > > This is limited only to the channels that the cable provider provides > > unencrypted on the firewire port > > Make that 3... > > 3) Cable QAM with an HDTV tuner card to get the digital channels that > that the cable provider provides... effectively a subset of option 1, > but suitable for those in places where HD antennae can't be put up > effectively...
So if I get an HDTV card like the pcHDTV-3000 and it has support for QAM (which I believe the 3k does), I can just plug the cable into the card and have it pick up any unencrypted HD channels? So HBO-HD probably won't work, but Fox HD should, right? Or is there something else I'm missing? And what about encoding the video? If I get a hardware encoder can it encode HD content the same way as regular content, or am I going to be looking at doing software encoding for HD? Thanks much for the help. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837
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