[mythtv-users] commercially-produced mythboxes -- an idea

[Hamish Moffatt]

On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 12:53:48PM -0800, Brad Templeton wrote:
> in the clear, on disk or on plain digital outputs.  (IIRC, you can
> make it available as QAM or ATSC again, with the broadcast flag intact.
> For a variety of reasons, a cheap ATSC modulator card would be a neat
> thing for PVRs, providing high quality output to HDTVs over RF.  I
> find this highly ironic.  In the old days, using RF from your VCR to
> your TV was the deprecrated approach.  Today, it would be great, a
> simple cheap cable with high quality signal bundling multiple
> channels of audio and video together at perfect digital quality!)

I noticed you've mentioned this a few times. Do you think it would be
better than DVI + S/PDIF, both of which are commonly available on PCs
today?

It also means that your output signal must be MPEG2, even for the Myth
menus, your X desktop etc. Encoding MPEG2 is CPU-intensive.


cheers
Hamish
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