On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 18:15, Les Mikesell wrote:
On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 10:56, John Hinton wrote:
Got some side questions.... Does this system have the ability to record HDTV?
I don't think anything you can buy for a PC will record HDTV from cable systems - at least in the US.\
There are HDTV cards available but as you imply I believe these are for over the air broadcasts. I would think that would include at least some of the channels sent out over a cable system.
http://pchdtv.com/hd_3000.html http://wendy.seltzer.org/mythtv/
As I mentioned in another message I believe I read that cable companies must provide a firewire interface for digital content. Not sure that includes the HDTV content or not but would suspect that it would.
Of course I also read that as of July 2005 they have passed laws making it illegal to make HDTV cards that don't support broadcast flags.
Suspect there will be a big battle over this in the next year or two as HDTV becomes more common and people find that they are unable to record and time shift shows.