[mythtv-users] OT - VGA -> USB - NOT - USB -> VGA

[Brian Wood]

Steve Hodge wrote:
> On Dec 21, 2007 3:04 PM, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org
> <mailto:beww at beww.org>> wrote:
> 
>     Tom Lichti wrote:
>     > Errr...did you see this:
>     http://www.epiphan.com/products/product.php?pid=23
>     >
>     > DVI capture over USB...like from a hi-def STB perhaps with an HDMI-DVI
>     > cable? A little pricey, but not as bad as I would have thought...
> 
>     I wonder if it has HDCP, in other words will a DRM-equipped video
>     source
>     agree to speak HD to it?
> 
>  
> The page says "*diagnostic-quality images and videos", is that a
> euphemism for crappy?

"Diagnostic Quality" to me means that you can make meaningful
quantitative measurements on the signal, which would imply pretty good.

Unless they mean "diagnostic" as is the video content, in which case it
might just be what we used to call a "video presence indicator".

beww


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