[mythtv-users] QAM tuner vrs Firewire

Andrew Close aclose at gmail.com
Tue Apr 3 19:33:36 UTC 2007


On 4/3/07, Donald Webster <fryfrog at gmail.com> wrote:
> If you are lucky, firewire will get you *EVERY SINGLE CHANNEL* you can
> tune to with your cable box.  For me, this is the case.  It includes
> all SD channels (which are actually digital for me), all HD
> channels... everthing.  I only pickup about 6 QAM HD channels with my
> pci cards, all "network" stations of course... and hidden, in that you
> have to scan for them by hand and label em and such.

but do you actually get HD over firewire?  i thought that if they
offered content over firewire it was typically downsampled to EDTV...


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