Re: www.badvista.org

Quoting Damien Hull <dhull@digitaloverload.net>:

> I know 2 things. There are a lot of options and most of them don't
> do true HD.
>
> I checked out mythtv.org. I see they list a HD TV tuner card (pchdtv).
> There may be more HD support but I didn't dig that deep. Even if this
> tuner card lets you connect to the cable box ( not sure that it does )
> you won't get HD support. Even if your cable company offers HD content.
>
> I'm not sure how it all works but it has something to do with hardware
> and stealing. I think they configured HD cables etc... so you can't
> stick a recorder in the middle and get true HD. That would be stealing
> content.
>
> If you want a DVR that records HD content you need one that's built
> into the cable or sat box. That's my take on it.
>
> Oh, this is assuming that these so called HD cards/hardware is true HD.
>

They are and they do record HD and play it back as HD.

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Received on Mon Jul 9 13:32:20 2007