<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/8/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Yeechang Lee</b> <<a href="mailto:ylee@pobox.com">ylee@pobox.com</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;">
mike choy <<a href="mailto:mike@acaciaclose.co.uk">mike@acaciaclose.co.uk</a>> says:<br>> [E]very post I read about from you guys in the us goes something<br>> like<br>><br>> 1. I have an analog capture card blah blah blah
<br><br>Most of the people using analog capture are doing so with Hauppauge or<br>other non-HDTV card models. Such people are<br><br>1. Not using HDTV at all [The vast majority of such cases],<br>2. Forced to use analog capture cards with the non-HDTV (S-Video,
<br> composite, or even coax) video outputs from their HDTV settop boxes<br> because<br>a) if cable, the boxes' FireWire connections don't put out unencrypted signals<br> for premium movie channels, and<br>b) if satellite, the boxes don't come with any digital output at all.
<br>3. Occasionally asking if a future analog card can encode the HDTV<br> component output from the HDTV boxes. [The answer here is almost<br> certainly going to remain "No" for the foreseeable future due to
<br> various reasons.]<br><br>There are the fortunate among us who have full, unencrypted FireWire<br>output of non-HDTV analog, non-HDTV digital, and HDTV digital channels<br>from their cable settop boxes, but such are few and far between. (And
<br>let me tell you, it's great! Muahahahahahahaha!!!!1!!11!!ELEVEN!!!!)<br><br>> 2. I'm using component connection to my HD display<br><br>Note that--contrary to myth--in practice (as opposed to theory) there<br>is nothing inherently inferior, video qualitywise, to using a
<br>component connection to a HD display versus using DVI or HDMI. It's<br>entirely possible that, due to the vagarities of different connectors<br>and chipsets and so forth, that a component output will provide better<br>
quality than using a digital connection. In other words, see for<br>yourself. (Read<br><URL:<a href="http://www.axiomaudio.com/archives/dvdi_hdmi.html">http://www.axiomaudio.com/archives/dvdi_hdmi.html</a>> for more on
<br>this topic.)<br><br>--<br>Yeechang Lee <<a href="mailto:ylee@pobox.com">ylee@pobox.com</a>> | +1 650 776 7763 | San Francisco CA US<br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list
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<br>Don't be shy. If your cable provider isn't encrypting everything under the sun, let us know who they are. I am truly hoping that cable providers realize that not restricting their customers is actually a GOOD business plan.
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