[mythtv-users] What card for "cable/sat" capture?

john roberts homepagez at lycos.com
Thu Mar 17 19:47:33 UTC 2005


All my experience with MythTV has been with OTA.  If I wanted to start capturing content from digital cable or Sat - what are my options?

As I see it:

1) pcHDTV 3000 with new QAM support (if the local cable provider is even using QAM encoding)
2) Low end capture card using composite video/audio in
3) If the Cable/Sat box does firewire - capture using firewire

Am I missing anything?  If I went with option (2) what cards should I look at?  I wouldn't think I would need something as expensive as the 250/350's since I wouldn't use the on-board encoders.

Thanks,

-John
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