[mythtv-users] Possibly a "dumb" question

[Eric Sharkey]

On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Robert McNamara
<robert.mcnamara at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Why can't it just stream the exact file to the TV and let the TV tuner
>> receive/decode/render/interlace/deinterlace it. In other words hand it to
>> the TV exactly as it were broadcast.
>>
>
> That would require an QAM modulator

That's not strictly true.  There are a very small number of models of
TV that accept firewire input.  (It was with this in mind that the FCC
originally mandated support for firewire on STB's, with the thought
that many more TVs would support this than do today.)

If you happen to have a TV with firewire input, it would in theory be
possible to do exactly this with standard PC hardware.

On the flip side, this would prevent the use of features like
time-stretch or even the overlay of menus and progress bars, fast
forward, commercial skip, etc. etc.

Eric