[mythtv-users] Getting into HD

James Pifer jep at obrien-pifer.com
Fri Apr 24 21:01:03 UTC 2009


On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 12:46 -0700, Doug Young wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Greg Woods <greg at gregandeva.net> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 09:48 -0700, Ian Forde wrote:
> >
> >> You're better off running RCA cables to an analog capture card
> >
> > Since the subject for this thread is "getting into HD", this technique
> > will not work for the original poster. You can't do HD over analog, it
> > requires a digital tuner. The only options I am aware of that can do HD
> > are the HD-PVR, firewire, HDHomerun, or a DVB card. If I'm wrong about
> > that, I'd love to hear about it!
> >
> > Granted, lots of people do confuse HD and digital. HD requires digital,
> > digital does not necessarily imply HD.
> 
> And I'd say that the subject is misleading.  From the OP:

Yes, I apologize for the misleading subject. Thanks for all the replies.
Even if I get the wife to agree, neither of my HDTVs, where the cable
boxes would sit, are near my mythbackend, so I have to deal with that
too. 

Thanks again,
James



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