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

[Pete Stagman]

yep, pvr-250 works for me. I have 2 pvr's capturing two dishnetwork receivers.


--Pete

On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 20:14:19 +0000, David <myth at dgreaves.com> wrote:
> john roberts wrote:
> 
> >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
> >
> >
> PVR 250 with s-video input (gives me superb capture) . I suspect that
> it's as good as you can get for SD TV.
> 
> may not be applicable in the US.
> 
> David
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