<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 12:33 PM, allene222 <<a href="mailto:nabble@oldpaloalto.com">nabble@oldpaloalto.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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In terms of trying it first before buying the hardware. Well, I would have<br>
to get the HDHR anyway and the only computer I have that I could try it on<br>
would be a P4-2.4GHz and that may not be enough for HD or even ATSC into SD<br>
for that matter from what I have read. Do you think I should try it with<br>
this computer? Would it even work with the HDHR into SD? Some of what I<br>
watch is only on the HD feed of the ATSC stream (PBS). I guess I could<br>
still experiment with some of the SD sub channels...<br>
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Allen Edwards</blockquote><div><br>That system would work fine, provided a reliable video card. I have a P4-2.4ghz master backend doing my HD now. I have a pair (and planning to add 2 more) of Pinnacle HDTV pci cards in it. The frontend is a P4 2.8 HT that is running both a slave backend and a frontend, as well as a framegrabber card. When I try to watch HD and record on the SD framegrabber (software encoding), I have problems. Otherwise, playback works flawlessly on my geforce4. The setup you've picked sounds like a good choice. <br>
</div></div><br><br>~Jon