On Mon, 2008-05-26 at 10:42 -0500, Mike Isely wrote: > On Sun, 25 May 2008, roger wrote:
> The HD-PVR by itself isn't a digital receiver. But it's an ideal device > when paired with an HD tuner that has HD outputs via component video. > It solves the problem of linking up MythTV to a DRM-infected cable box. > (At least I think it does, I have no personal experience with this.) > This is why the MythTV crowd is drooling over it. It just needs a Linux > driver. > > An absolute killer device would be an HD-PVR with a tuner and FM > reception. That would make it a complete HD-level evolution over what > the PVR-USB2 was. But I have no idea if anything like that is in the > works. Some good info. Currently there's only a few in Anchorage, but none here in Fairbanks according to: http://www.ibiquity.com/hd_radio/hdradio_find_a_station To my amazement, there are a lot more stations broadcasting in digital now. > > > > Guess I'll have to wait awhile to see the results of recording on lower > > processor platforms. > > I'm sure you can use a very slow processor to record with the HD-PVR. > It's playback that is the issue. And the root cause has to do with > h.264 decoding, so it isn't going to get any better with driver > improvements. More likely this will be less of an issue in the future > and processor power improves. It's the same sort of thing that happened > and HD tuners started to appear and the computers of the day could > barely handle the decoding requirements. Nowadays just about any decent > computer can do it. I have none of the wide screen tv's here, nor do I plan to buy any within the near future. (Old Age Syndrome taking effect.) So, I currently only care about SD (Standard Definition) playback/recording ... for now. I rarely watch live tv through the pvrusb2 device as well. I just use it for a PVR (recording) device for watching later... until the free tv schedule support got dropped from MythTV. :-/ -- Roger http://www.eskimo.com/~roger/index.html
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