[mythtv-users] Comcast HD & firewire

[Scott Alfter]

Dylan Semler wrote:
> On 11/2/06, *Dewey Smolka* <dsmolka at gmail.com
> <mailto:dsmolka at gmail.com>> wrote:
>     Right now there's just no way to get the cable HD channels into Myth
>     while preserving HD if the company has set encryption on them.
> 
> I've been wondering about why there are no tuner cards with DVI or HDMI
> inputs for this reason.  It seems it wouldn't be too different than
> taking the mpeg stream from a co-ax cable.

It would be very different, as the DVI video stream is uncompressed.  If you
don't want to burn through 100+ GB/hr of disk space, a DVI capture card would
need to recompress the video, and realtime HDTV compression is expen$ive.

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