<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="Ih2E3d"><br></div><div class="Ih2E3d">> 1) Use MythTV and NOT get these channels *at all*, OR;
<br>> 2) Use their DVR and get these channels, but loose the MythTV.<br><br></div>3) Settle for S-Video output from your STB for premium channels to an<br>analog capture card. It may surprise you as to how good down-sampled
<br>HD content over s-video looks. Close to DVD quality I would say.<br><br><br></blockquote></div>
4) instead of paying your cable co for a digital STB+ HD "package" + premium channel "packages" + HD PVR with crippled hardware and software, pay a small fraction of that to Netflix and get your premium shows & movies that way. I pay Commucast $14/month (4 networks in HD, plus 5 PBS channels including PBS HD) and Netflix $20. We'll get sent a whole season of something on DVDs, load it into Mythvideo, watch it at our leisure, and send the DVDs back for something else the next day.
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