<div>Chad,</div>
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<div>What kind of file sizes are you geting with some of your recordings?</div>
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<div>The real question that I want to ask is it worth it? I meanshould I spend the time and money trying to get this to work?</div>
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<div>Anyone else dealing with a QAM connection that could shed some light on the subject? What's the facts onbuying your own cable box? Can you do digital and HD that way?</div>
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<div>Thanks,</div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/1/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Chad</b> <<a href="mailto:masterclc@gmail.com">masterclc@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">On 8/31/05, A JM <<a href="mailto:vbtalent@gmail.com">vbtalent@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> I'm looking for some background on HD since I currently only run in SD.
<br>><br>> Can someone give me the lay of the land as far as being able to recieve HD<br>> and watch HD? I "assume", bad word on my behalf, that by owning an HD card<br>> (HD2000- HD3000) that the "decoding" portion of the signal is complete all
<br>> that is left is the actual signal?<br><br>I've got an HD3000 and I use an OTA antenna, NOT my cable companies cable (QAM).<br><br>You plug either your cable company fed cable into the card, OR a cable<br>running from (usually) a large roof top antenna. The cable company is
<br>called QAM, the antenna is called OTA, I seem to remember seeing it<br>also called 8VSB. The HD3000 supports both.<br><br>> We currenly have cable but do not use a cable box so we only get channels<br>> below 70, I think it's with Insight Cable. Do you need a box or other
<br>> hardware to recieve the signal or just plug and play?<br><br>This should be a plug and play thing, at least as far as that goes.<br>You will need to configure your card correctly within myth, but I<br>think that part is obvious.
<br><br>> Thanks for any insight the group can give.<br><br>Insight, funny choice of words since that's your provider ;)<br><br>The card is great. Getting the DVB drivers all running happily<br>together can be a bit cumbersome for about 30 minutes, but the more I
<br>do it, the faster I can iron out the creases it seems. I have yet to<br>use QAM at all, but from what I have read around here, on the AVS<br>forums and from a few different miscellaneous pages, it provides more<br>options and includes all the options that are available OTA. I have
<br>about 4 other capture cards that do my non-HD stuff for me, so I don't<br>bother to see if the grass is greener or not.<br><br>Good Luck!<br><br>> AJM,<br>> _______________________________________________<br><br>
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