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On 1/2/2007 3:41 PM Brad Templeton said the following:
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<pre wrap="">On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 07:59:24PM -0800, Michael Kipper wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Hi all,
I've been using MythTV for a while for my standard definition needs.
I recently bought a Sony 1080p HDTV, which came with a Rogers PVR for 10 months.
The Rogers box (Scientific Atlanta 8300HD) is $24.95/month after the 10 month trial and is crap compared to MythTV.
So catch me up. What are my options for capturing HDTV from the Rogers box?
All the HDTV capture solutions I've seen are for over-the-air HDTV, not capturing from my paid-for stream.
Thanks!
Michael Kipper
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There are currently no consumer priced HDTV _capture_ solutions. Generally, HDTV is not
captured (which tends to mean doing A2D on an uncompressed analog stream and then usually
compressing it). OTA HDTV cards simply receive a pre-encoded mpeg2 data broadcast,
which is not typically thought of as capture.
Unless your cable box has an unecrypted digital output such as firewire,
you'll be out of luck. In the USA people can demand a box with firewire,
and often they get on that does it unencrypted, but that's not actually
required by law for non-OTA channels. I don't know if there is such
a rule in Canada
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Can one demand a firewire output on a satellite box as well? Can you
point me to the law that requires this availability for consumers?<br>
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Thanks,<br>
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Drew<br>
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