[mythtv-users] Preparing for HDTV in 2005

[Chris Pinkham]

> > S-Video IN our OUT?  If IN, what's the use unless that means they are
> > putting a mpeg encoder chip onboard which would make this quite a different
> > beast than the current card I believe.   If it was IN and we could get
> > support for the S-Video -> mpeg2 feature then that could stear a lot of
> > people away from the current analog hardware encoder cards since a lot of
> > people just run S-Video or composite into them.
> 
> >From what I understand, the analog support in the PC-2000 is something
> just like a Hauppauge WinTV card: a frame grabber.  If you want MPEG2,
> you spend CPU cycles to get it there.  I suspect the S-video input
> spits out exactly the same data, but gets it from an unmodulated video
> signal instead of from a tuned antenna/analog cable signal.
> 
> Cheers,
> Kyle

Thanks, so it's not as nice as I would have hoped.  Have been debating
picking up one of these cards to go along with my M179 and pvr-250 cards.
Might not work too well in the area I'm in surrounded by 80-100 foot tall
trees though.

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Chris