<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 9:53 PM, John Drescher <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:drescherjm@gmail.com">drescherjm@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<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">> Okay, lost me here. Are you saying that if I get a card that captures<br>
> Digital TV only (no analog input), and I just have regular analog cable TV<br>
> right now, I can capture it fine? ie., Digital is kind of "backwards<br>
> compatible" to grab analog?? I think this area confuses me most lol.<br>
><br>
</div>A lot of digital tuners have analog as well. Although the analog tuner<br>
on these cards use software mpeg not hardware. Also, I am not sure<br>
what is happening in outside of my viewing area but I know that next<br>
February there will still be over 50 analog only channels and probably<br>
the same 12 unencrypted digital channels (MYTV, NBC, CBS, ABC, FOX + 4<br>
PBS + ABC weather + NBC Weather + classic tv) with my Comcast<br>
service. I currently have dual analog tuners going and a single<br>
digital tuner that allows me to record more than 1 digital station at<br>
a time provided that the station is in the same multiplex. For me all<br>
12 channels are in 4 or 5 multiplexes.<br>
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John<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br>Okay, so that's not ideal then as I'd want a hardware encoder I suppose. So I think I'll need a card that has at least one analog tuner along with a digital.<br><br>If I use a digital tuner on my regular cable TV will it capture at better quality than my pvr-150?<br>
<br>I'm kind of tossed between just grabbing another basic pvr-150 or doing the whole setup over with new mobo/ram/cpu and better card...<br><br><br>Bob<br></div>