[mythtv-users] ATSC & QAM

Michael T. Dean mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Fri Sep 15 18:08:11 UTC 2006


On 09/15/06 11:23, Paul V. Gratz wrote:

>2. My backend is a 3GHz P4 but my front ends are more in the 1.6GHz P4
>   range.  It sounds like they don't have the horse power for playing
>   HD, would it be feasible to down convert somewhat for playing a
>   reduced HD later (as I do with 80% of my programs right now for
>   storage reasons) and keep my PVR-500 for live TV?
>

Sounds like a good reason to swap (i.e. turn a frontend into a backend 
and the backend into a frontend).

Mike


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