[mythtv-users] I may have SOLVED the 5C cable encryption - DOH!

[Brad Templeton]

Well, a friend of mine is designing a new transcoding chip for HDTV.  It's
aimed at transcoding more than raw-encoding, because transcoding can make
use of quantization and motion estimations from the incoming encoding to
save time in doing the outgoing one, but because it is designed to do really
fast transcoding it can also, she tells me, encode raw HDTV for you.

And it should cost about $10, which means a $150 card is not out of the
question.  Getting A2D for component out is another story, though you can
still find STB that put out DVI sometimes I thought.

So all it takes is some brave soul to come to the company that is paying
her to make the chip and order a ton for cards to go in mythtv boxes
and you will be able to record your HD from an STB that puts out DVI
or probably component video.