[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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