[mythtv-users] MythTV to become obsolete?
Shay
mythtv at highstyleweb.com
Mon Sep 15 13:46:14 EDT 2003
At 12:20 PM 9/15/2003, you wrote:
>>Ummm, you're joking, of course. But I'll thrown in some observations.
>>
>>1) The FCC is involved in deciding standards. That means nothing will
>>happen for another 6 years. See the current HDTV situation for empirical data.
>>
>>2) The standard says nothing about PVR capabilities. It's a standard for
>>transmission of cable and special ineteractive cable services. Therefore
>>it really doesn't address MythTV at all. It's like in my situation DISH
>>network has their own secure stuff, receiver box standards and
>>interactive services, but I can still just record off a video out cable.
>
>Not to mention, projects like MythTV and V4L(2) will adapt to any new
>hardware, technologies, or standards... And you can bet that the cable
>companies will be forced to retain backward compatibility with RF (coax
>channel 2/3), Composite, and S-Video or they will lose a large percentage
>of their paying customer base. I know quite a number of people with
>ancient TVs still not capable of tuning channels greater than 13, that
>have to use screw-on adapter to hook cable up to their antenna binding
>posts, and/or use external converters.
>
>Hell, I'm using a Scientific Atlanta Explorer 2000 converter to receive
>Digital Cable to my MythTV box. There isn't any other option available to
>me that I am aware of, although i'd love to have a receiver card for the
>PC so I can do away with the SA2000 box entirely.
Does the SA2000 convert the entire stream, or a single channel? So, would
you have to have 2 of them if you had 2 capture cards?
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