[mythtv-users] HDHomeRun

[Brad Templeton]

On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 07:38:54PM -0700, jafa wrote:
> 
> > Well, some of us were thinking as an external, dual-tuner MPEG-2  
> > encoder for things like cable, or for those of us who have systems  
> > that are incapable of playing back HD content. In that case, ATSC is  
> > useless for us, and we'd rather have NTSC.
> >   
> One trick to get HDTV playback on a slower machine is to transcode to a 
> mid-range resolution or to the native resolution of your tv/projector.
> 
> For recording from a cable or sat box it would be better to use the HD 
> outputs rather than NTSC. With hardware encoding to MPEG4 I could see it 
> being useful.

Useful, but not possible with consumer grade hardware costing less than thousands
of dollars.