http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/05/04/ask-hd-beat-does-mce-support-qam/ Engadget HD Comments for Ask HD Beat: Does MCE support QAM 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/2006/05/04/ask-hd-beat-does-mce-support-qam/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/05/04/ask-hd-beat-does-mce-support-qam/May 4th 2006 11:29AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/05/04/ask-hd-beat-does-mce-support-qam/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/05/04/ask-hd-beat-does-mce-support-qam/May 4th 2006 11:32AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/05/04/ask-hd-beat-does-mce-support-qam/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/05/04/ask-hd-beat-does-mce-support-qam/That is supposidly the exact reason why MCE doesn't support QAM either, it seems like it wouldn't be too hard to manually map the few clear QAM channels available.

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You can use VirtualDHVS to play back to your firewire-enabled TV too, no problem.

However, HD Playback directly on the Mac (ie using VLC) requires an Intel just because the PPCs can't decode MPEG2 fast enough -- but even the PPCs can play back to a TV over firewire (since it's just dumping the HD stream).

-Pie]]>May 6th 2006 11:30AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2006/05/04/ask-hd-beat-does-mce-support-qam/http://www.engadgethd.com/2006/05/04/ask-hd-beat-does-mce-support-qam/Although it is easy to record via 1394 on a Mac, what is not easy is to schedule recordings intelligently ala TiVo sytle. MCE makes this possible which is why the question was asked. If he just wanted to record QAM manually he could use a number of different methods.
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