http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/02/20/how-to-get-tons-of-hd-content-playing-on-your-pc/ Engadget HD Comments for http://www.engadgethd.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadgethd.com en-us Copyright 2008 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/02/20/how-to-get-tons-of-hd-content-playing-on-your-pc/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/02/20/how-to-get-tons-of-hd-content-playing-on-your-pc/Feb 20th 2006 6:22PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/02/20/how-to-get-tons-of-hd-content-playing-on-your-pc/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/02/20/how-to-get-tons-of-hd-content-playing-on-your-pc/Feb 20th 2006 6:26PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/02/20/how-to-get-tons-of-hd-content-playing-on-your-pc/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/02/20/how-to-get-tons-of-hd-content-playing-on-your-pc/
I don't see why BeyondTV4 wouldn't support QAM. When I do captures they look almost the same. I will try it with my A180 and MCE and report back.]]>Feb 20th 2006 6:28PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/02/20/how-to-get-tons-of-hd-content-playing-on-your-pc/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/02/20/how-to-get-tons-of-hd-content-playing-on-your-pc/That's one I'm looking for.]]>Feb 20th 2006 6:59PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/02/20/how-to-get-tons-of-hd-content-playing-on-your-pc/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/02/20/how-to-get-tons-of-hd-content-playing-on-your-pc/Feb 20th 2006 7:08PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/02/20/how-to-get-tons-of-hd-content-playing-on-your-pc/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/02/20/how-to-get-tons-of-hd-content-playing-on-your-pc/The A180 has XP drivers and stand alone recording software. When the A180 was first released it didn't but Avermedia recently released it.

Ben]]>Feb 20th 2006 7:27PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/02/20/how-to-get-tons-of-hd-content-playing-on-your-pc/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/02/20/how-to-get-tons-of-hd-content-playing-on-your-pc/
USB 2.0 drivers for the HDTiVo (and every Series2) are readily avialable at the mentioned dealdatabase forum...

Many people get around 2-4 megabytes a second with these drivers.]]>Feb 20th 2006 8:26PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/02/20/how-to-get-tons-of-hd-content-playing-on-your-pc/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/02/20/how-to-get-tons-of-hd-content-playing-on-your-pc/You caught on to the way I worded it. To date I have been too lazy to try them or I would have mentioned them.
Thanks for the comments, if I do end up trying them I will write up a follow up.

Ben]]>Feb 20th 2006 8:43PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/02/20/how-to-get-tons-of-hd-content-playing-on-your-pc/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/02/20/how-to-get-tons-of-hd-content-playing-on-your-pc/woah!! thanks for the link to mariposaHD .. what a great concept: free HDTV over BitTorrent (of hot South American models in skimpy bikinis)

me likey.]]>Feb 20th 2006 11:55PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/02/20/how-to-get-tons-of-hd-content-playing-on-your-pc/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/02/20/how-to-get-tons-of-hd-content-playing-on-your-pc/]]>Feb 21st 2006 3:27AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/02/20/how-to-get-tons-of-hd-content-playing-on-your-pc/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/02/20/how-to-get-tons-of-hd-content-playing-on-your-pc/Does any company make a Component to Digial interface?

Would be nice to have a card that accepts Component feeds from say a cable stb and converts it into a digital stream for storage to HTPC.

Can't seem to locate one though...
]]>Feb 21st 2006 9:15AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/02/20/how-to-get-tons-of-hd-content-playing-on-your-pc/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/02/20/how-to-get-tons-of-hd-content-playing-on-your-pc/Nope, no one makes such a beast. Even if they did we are better off geting a original digital copy. The PQ could only get worse if we converted it to analog and back to digital again. Not to mention how much it would cost.

If our computers supported 5C then we could record the original signal via 1394.]]>Feb 21st 2006 9:21AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/02/20/how-to-get-tons-of-hd-content-playing-on-your-pc/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/02/20/how-to-get-tons-of-hd-content-playing-on-your-pc/
I heartily agree w/ getting the original digital content, that's the epitome. Unfortunately there is all the copyright protectionism going on.

Also, many of us can't receive OTA HDTV signals and are limited to either cable HDTV which requires a stb that outputs component to T.V.

If I had a component to digital card in an HTPC sitting next to stb, I could get close to HDTV w/ understandable degradation in quality, but it should still be far better than regular definition.]]>Feb 21st 2006 10:35AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/02/20/how-to-get-tons-of-hd-content-playing-on-your-pc/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/02/20/how-to-get-tons-of-hd-content-playing-on-your-pc/
Such devices do exist, but not in the consumer market. They are meant for professional HD content creation fields. As such, there are difficulties getting them to work with consumer applications, namely having to deal with SDI interfaces, AES/EBU protocols, and BNC connectors. Many devices are also not meant for real time applications, and most only communicate with content creation software.

In any case, here's an example:
http://www.pinnaclesys.com/PublicSite/us/Products/Consumer+Products/Advanced+Video/Liquid+Edition/Avid+Liquid+Pro+7.htm]]>Feb 21st 2006 10:54AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/02/20/how-to-get-tons-of-hd-content-playing-on-your-pc/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/02/20/how-to-get-tons-of-hd-content-playing-on-your-pc/
Ben]]>Feb 21st 2006 11:12AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/02/20/how-to-get-tons-of-hd-content-playing-on-your-pc/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/02/20/how-to-get-tons-of-hd-content-playing-on-your-pc/
http://store.yahoo.com/hdnet-store/wimehddv.html

Looks like they are planning more also based on the IODATA web site]]>Feb 21st 2006 5:13PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/02/20/how-to-get-tons-of-hd-content-playing-on-your-pc/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/02/20/how-to-get-tons-of-hd-content-playing-on-your-pc/That's one I'm looking for"

To answer this you can get an ATI All In Wonder card, http://www.ati.com/, they have the option of PCI or AGP. ATI provides "ATI Multimedia Center" which will record tv for you, without the need of Windows Media Center.

Know this you will NOT get HD quality with this, but you will get a good enough quality if your recording shows.

PS

Dave what area you live in?]]>Feb 21st 2006 9:08PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/02/20/how-to-get-tons-of-hd-content-playing-on-your-pc/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/02/20/how-to-get-tons-of-hd-content-playing-on-your-pc/
I'm currently a comcast subscriber and I have their DVR. I don't understand about what is encrypted? If I replaced my comcast DVR with my HTPC and got a regular cable box would something prevent me from recording some content on it? Doesn't decryption happen before the signal comes out of the cable box? Y'all are trying to replace the cable box altogether? Sorry I know these are beginner questions.]]>Feb 21st 2006 9:17PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/02/20/how-to-get-tons-of-hd-content-playing-on-your-pc/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/02/20/how-to-get-tons-of-hd-content-playing-on-your-pc/
The DVR supports the encryption so it can record it. But you can't copy the content off the DVR on to your PC.]]>Feb 21st 2006 10:50PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/02/20/how-to-get-tons-of-hd-content-playing-on-your-pc/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/02/20/how-to-get-tons-of-hd-content-playing-on-your-pc/

http://www.liverpool-skyline.co.uk]]>Feb 22nd 2006 3:33AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/02/20/how-to-get-tons-of-hd-content-playing-on-your-pc/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/02/20/how-to-get-tons-of-hd-content-playing-on-your-pc/That's one I'm looking for"

Ran...
Yes. IMHO the Vbox Cat's Eye 150 with BeyondTV-SE, FireFly RF remote control and lifetime subscription to 14 day EPG is what you want. This is our (VBox) package that gives you everything you need to get started (except the antenna) The software has all the functionality that you will need and you have the EPG (electronic program guide). We used to sell our own software but decided in stead to sell BTV since it has all the bells and whistles.

Even if you don't buy my product I suggest that you look into the quality of the board and not just the cost. Multipath rejection is an important issue (basically you are receiving the signal twice, with a slight delay between the signals, and the tuner can't decide which one to display).

Shimon Hirschhorn
VBox Communications]]>Feb 22nd 2006 10:43AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/02/20/how-to-get-tons-of-hd-content-playing-on-your-pc/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/02/20/how-to-get-tons-of-hd-content-playing-on-your-pc/Feb 22nd 2006 11:38AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/02/20/how-to-get-tons-of-hd-content-playing-on-your-pc/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/02/20/how-to-get-tons-of-hd-content-playing-on-your-pc/If MCE doesn't recognize it then you may have the wrong driver. I check the mfg website and they don't list a driver for MCE either. It is a different driver than XP.
http://www.kworld.com.tw/en/download/download_atsc110.htm]]>Feb 22nd 2006 12:19PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/02/20/how-to-get-tons-of-hd-content-playing-on-your-pc/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/02/20/how-to-get-tons-of-hd-content-playing-on-your-pc/
All: I've done some more poking round the SnapStream site and found this little bit of specific info: "While Beyond TV 4 does not yet support clear-QAM, the included DVICO software does" So the question is, does the HDTVFusion software have DVR features and are they any good? I've been absent from the HTPC section of AVS for awhile now... I imagine the answer is there.]]>Feb 22nd 2006 6:41PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/02/20/how-to-get-tons-of-hd-content-playing-on-your-pc/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/02/20/how-to-get-tons-of-hd-content-playing-on-your-pc/Feb 24th 2006 3:31PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/02/20/how-to-get-tons-of-hd-content-playing-on-your-pc/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/02/20/how-to-get-tons-of-hd-content-playing-on-your-pc/
Just wondering if I can solve my situation with 720p AVI files; my system is:

1.2 Ghz
384 MB RAM
128 MB graphics cards (it's an Asylum GeForce MX 4000 with 8xAGP)

but I'm unable to play 720p files without skipping frames or asincronism between audio and video.

Just wondering what filter do I need to buy/download/install if it's posible-

Thanks a lot in advance for your time!]]>Mar 9th 2006 4:21PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/02/20/how-to-get-tons-of-hd-content-playing-on-your-pc/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/02/20/how-to-get-tons-of-hd-content-playing-on-your-pc/
Any help would be appreciated.]]>Mar 17th 2006 12:28AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/02/20/how-to-get-tons-of-hd-content-playing-on-your-pc/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/02/20/how-to-get-tons-of-hd-content-playing-on-your-pc/I'm in Brandon Tampa and currently subscribed to Brighthouse Network Cable. I have their SA8300HD box and I had tried to record off the box via firewire (using timmoore's firewire drivers)to my MCE HTPC but to no avail. The SA box would freeze up everytime I connect it to my HTPC. If I swap the box to something other than the SA8300HD (maybe a SA3250HD if indeed BNH have it) would recording through firewire work or will it not work considering BNH have 5C encrypted on all its HD channels?]]>Mar 17th 2006 2:38AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/02/20/how-to-get-tons-of-hd-content-playing-on-your-pc/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/02/20/how-to-get-tons-of-hd-content-playing-on-your-pc/The 8300HD doesn't have an active 1394 port so you will have to trade it for a 3250HD. I have one in my truck that I have been meaning to return(to the brandon office). I am not sure if they have another one or not.

I am returning it because BHN encrypts everything except the OTA channels which I recieve fine with an antenna.]]>Mar 17th 2006 7:47AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/02/20/how-to-get-tons-of-hd-content-playing-on-your-pc/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/02/20/how-to-get-tons-of-hd-content-playing-on-your-pc/Mar 17th 2006 5:21PM