>Digital broadcasting in the US is trash.<br>
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It's no more trash than analog TV, though. Just better protected trash ;-)<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/27/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Brandon Stoll</b> <<a href="mailto:mrmagoo@mrmagoo.org">mrmagoo@mrmagoo.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;">On 12/26/05, Alex Malinovich <<a href="mailto:demonbane@the-love-shack.net">
demonbane@the-love-shack.net</a>> wrote:<br>> On Mon, 2005-12-26 at 17:49 -0800, Ian Forde wrote:<br>> > On Mon, 2005-12-26 at 18:11 -0600, Kevin Kuphal wrote:<br>> > > There are two ways to capture HDTV.
<br>> > ><br>> > > 1) OTA with an HDTV tuner card<br>> > > 2) via Firewire from a cable box like the Motorola DCT-6200 (IIRC).<br>> > > This is limited only to the channels that the cable provider provides
<br>> > > unencrypted on the firewire port<br>> ><br>> > Make that 3...<br>> ><br>> > 3) Cable QAM with an HDTV tuner card to get the digital channels that<br>> > that the cable provider provides... effectively a subset of option 1,
<br>> > but suitable for those in places where HD antennae can't be put up<br>> > effectively...<br>><br>> So if I get an HDTV card like the pcHDTV-3000 and it has support for QAM<br>> (which I believe the 3k does), I can just plug the cable into the card
<br>> and have it pick up any unencrypted HD channels? So HBO-HD probably<br>> won't work, but Fox HD should, right? Or is there something else I'm<br>> missing?<br>><br>> And what about encoding the video? If I get a hardware encoder can it
<br>> encode HD content the same way as regular content, or am I going to be<br>> looking at doing software encoding for HD?<br>><br>> Thanks much for the help.<br>><br><br><br>You might want to find a TV with a built-in tuner or something to that
<br>extent to find out what exactly you're going to be getting over QAM.<br>I get the big networks, Discovery Times, and TNT... but from other<br>comments it seems to vary a lot depending on provider.<br><br>I like getting the networks in HD and all, but spending $100+ to only
<br>get like 6 channels is disappointing.<br><br>So basically, firewire has 5C copy protection, QAM has little content,<br>OTA has (understandably) limited content. Digital broadcasting in the<br>US is trash.<br>_______________________________________________
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