<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Jun 17, 2006, at 5:39 AM, Kyle Cummings wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><DIV></DIV> <DIV>I am building a "from scratch" system to record content from a DirecTV H20 receiver.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Can anyone give me a breakdown on what card (or cards) I should be using to connect the H20 to the MythTV box?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>The back of the H20 has USB, S-Video Out, Component Out, Video Out, Audio Out, Digital Audio Out, HDMI Out, Phone Jack, and RF Remote Antenna.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I guess my first question is can I record HDTV content with this equipment?</DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Essentially no. You would need an encoder capable of HD, and AFAIK there are no consumer level devices available to do that.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Lucent does make such a unit, but I believe the starting price is around $30,000.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>If I'm wrong and such a device has come onto the market at an affordable price I'd love to know :-)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I thought that some DirecTV receivers had a Firewire output that could give you access to the decrypted mpeg stream, but I'm not sure about that, and I've never heard of such being available over a USB connection.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>You can record SD, the best method would be to connect the S-Video output to the similar input of a PVR card.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>