[mythtv-users] Semi-OT: DVB in USA?

Steven Adeff adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com
Tue Apr 4 17:13:58 UTC 2006


On 4/4/06, Mark Johannessen <mfjlaw at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Yeah, that's kind of what I want! Looks like I'll have to resort to
> > digital cable through my PVR-150 for anything like that. My Myth
> > Backend isn't powerful enough to handle HD down conversion, and my
> > front-end can't do it on the fly.
>
> I'm a bit confused on this ... I though the PVR-xxx series cards can
> capture analog streams (OTA or cable) but not digital streams (like DT
> labelled channels whether through cable or OTA) and that is why people
> are using the pcHD300 etc. type cards.
>
> Mark

with a PVR card you output the digital channel from a
cablebox/satelite receiver through SVideo output into the PVR card and
use a ir blaster or serial connection to change channels.

--
Steve


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