On 4/12/07, David Brodbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I set up MythTV on a lark a few months ago, mostly because I wanted to play with pausing live TV. I was soon totally addicted. It's completely changed how I watch TV; I hardly ever watch anything "live" anymore, I just let the scheduler record what I want so I can watch it at my leisure. It's great. I fear that a lot of pain is coming my way with the looming digital conversion, though. It's mandatory for broadcast in 2009 and some cable companies are converting sooner. From reading the mythtv mailing list it seems recording HDTV is a hit-or-miss proposal, especially off cable.
Not exactly, there are good HDTV cards, which work for off the air signals. And for cable, you should request, and your cable company have to deliver a cable box with firewire output. They are required so by an FCC ruling. Usualy they do not, but after I insisted at Comacast office, they exchanged mine. And mythTV is perfectly happy to manage this box (Motorola) and record over the firewire. I have read some guys even have got multiple such boxes and chain-connect them,and MythTV was able to manage them all. Changing channels, everything. -- Svetoslav Milenov (Sunny) Even the most advanced equipment in the hands of the ignorant is just a pile of scrap. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
