<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><DIV>On Jan 10, 2007, at 12:01 PM, Doug Meredith wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <DIV class="Section1"> <DIV> <DIV><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="3" face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="font-size: 12.0pt">On Jan 10, 2007, at 10:11 AM, notimeinco wrote:<O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P> </DIV><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="3" face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="font-size: 12.0pt"><BR> <BR> <O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="3" color="navy" face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="font-size:12.0pt;color:navy">> </SPAN></FONT>The obstacle is that there are no consumer-grade cards that can capture from <FONT color="navy"><SPAN style="color:navy"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="3" color="navy" face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="font-size:12.0pt;color:navy">> </SPAN></FONT>an HDMI port. <FONT color="navy"><SPAN style="color:navy"><O:P></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"><O:P> </O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">The other obstacle is that this is presumably uncompressed. If you captured it you would have to recompress it and you would introduce more loss.</SPAN></FONT></P></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>Good point. The cable boxes pre-compress the signal for you when outputting to their firewire port. I guess this is why you would need the modified STB from 169time as well as their "AVX1 processor"? To compress the uncompressed signal from the STB into a format that MythTV could use? So it's like $1800 to get HD out of a satellite box. Yikes.</DIV></BODY></HTML>