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

Jesse Guardiani jesse at wingnet.net
Tue Apr 4 17:44:57 UTC 2006


Mark Johannessen 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.
>   

People in the US are using the AverTV HD A180 and HD3000 for HDTV. You 
can only get
SDTV from the PVR xxx cards.

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Jesse Guardiani
Programmer/Sys Admin
jesse at wingnet.net



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