The best bang for the buck upgrade path is probably to just upgrade the
CPU on your frontend to something that can handle HD decoding.<br>
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<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/4/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">glen martin</b> <<a href="mailto:lists@locutory.org">lists@locutory.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
glen martin wrote:<br><br>>Michael T. Dean wrote:<br>><br>><br>>My front-end can't support HD playback, and my TV can't display it. But<br>>I like the aspect ratio and extra channels (eg. 5 subchannels on PBS) of
<br>>ATSC.<br>><br>><br>>>your best option for "live" transcoding from ATSC -> NTSC is plugging<br>>>the S-Video/Composite out of your cable box into a PVR-x50. If you're<br>>>using OTA instead of cable, you could get a STB ATSC receiver (like
<br>>><a href="http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=7292146&type=product&productCategoryId=cat03022&id=1118840815760">http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=7292146&type=product&productCategoryId=cat03022&id=1118840815760
</a><br>>>-- note that I don't recommend this one as I've never used it, but<br>>>it's the type of thing you would need).<br>>><br>>><br>>That's an approach I hadn't considered. So for OTA use, I could get
<br>>something like this standalone ATSC receiver, set it for 480i output,<br>>feed that into a PVR-250 through the s-video input, and use MythTV as<br>>usual including pause etc. Interesting. I had a mental block on that,
<br>>but seems obvious once you suggest it.<br>><br>><br>The only downside seems to be a roundtrip through analog between the<br>external box and the PVR-250.<br><br>glen<br><br>_______________________________________________
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