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

[David]

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?
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>As I see it:
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>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
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>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.
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>Thanks,
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>-John
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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