On 8/31/05, A JM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm looking for some background on HD since I currently only run in SD.
Can someone give me the lay of the land as far as being able to recieve HD
and watch HD? I assume, bad word on my behalf, that by owning an HD card
(HD2000- HD3000) that the
Chad,
What kind of file sizes are you geting with some of your recordings?
The real question that I want to ask is it worth it? I meanshould I spend the time and money trying to get this to work?
Anyone else dealing with a QAM connection that could shed some light on the subject? What's the
Do you have an HDTV? If so, and you have a HD source (i.e., antenna or
cable), then it is absolutely worth it.
A JM wrote:
Chad,
What kind of file sizes are you geting with some of your recordings?
The real question that I want to ask is it worth it? I meanshould I
spend the time and
I should add, you also need a machine capable of decoding and playing
back the HD file.
Zak wrote:
Do you have an HDTV? If so, and you have a HD source (i.e., antenna
or cable), then it is absolutely worth it.
A JM wrote:
Chad,
What kind of file sizes are you geting with some of your
On 9/1/05, A JM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anyone else dealing with a QAM connection that could shed some
light on the subject? What's the facts onbuying your own cable box? Can
you do digital and HD that way?
You don't USE a cable box with QAM.
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Donavan Stanley wrote:
On 9/1/05, A JM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anyone else dealing with a QAM connection that could shed some light on
the subject? What's the facts onbuying your own cable box? Can you do
digital and HD that way?
You don't USE a cable box with QAM.
This really
Do you have an HDTV?
I have an HD capable TV so it's without a converterif I understand correctly?I was hoping I could do some recording in Myth with an HD3000 then pass it to the TV for viewing, correct assumption?
So, if I don't need a cable box with QAM then what would prevent me from
Good question Brian. I'm going to make another assumtion that no you'll need to have a cable box for the HD programming provided by the cable company but it might work on the lower channels that are being broadcasted in HD if I'm understanding correctly.
Like i said thats a W.A.G...
AJM,
On
On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 09:02 -0400, Brian Stults wrote:
Donavan Stanley wrote:
You don't USE a cable box with QAM.
This really surprised me. I bought an HD3000 a long time ago to get it
before the FCC deadline. However, I haven't used it yet because I
thought I would need to get
Nothing, if you have a QAM tuner in your HDTV. However, since you say
it is HD Capable, I assume it does not. Therefore, you would probably
not be able to receive those channels just by plugging in the cable to
your TV. Don't forget that the cable company WANTS you to have a cable
box -
On 9/1/05, Greg Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 09:02 -0400, Brian Stults wrote: Donavan Stanley wrote: You don't USE a cable box with QAM. This really surprised me.I bought an HD3000 a long time ago to get it
before the FCC deadline.However, I haven't used it yet because I
A JM wrote:
Good question Brian. I'm going to make another assumtion that no
you'll need to have a cable box for the HD programming provided by the
cable company but it might work on the lower channels that are being
broadcasted in HD if I'm understanding correctly.
Like i said thats a
Greg Woods wrote:
On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 09:02 -0400, Brian Stults wrote:
Donavan Stanley wrote:
You don't USE a cable box with QAM.
This really surprised me. I bought an HD3000 a long time ago to get it
before the FCC deadline. However, I haven't used it yet because I
Sorry about the Evil post I'll try to correct myself in future postings :)
I think I'm followingnow.
QAM is how the signal is delivered over cable and the HD content is eitherscrambled or unscrambled. OTA is a more a reference for HD content over the airwaves.
If the content is unscrambled you
At 10:02 AM 9/1/2005, you wrote:
There is a difference between a PVR250 or PVR350 in that they only do SD
and the 350 has tv-out which the 250 lacks
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A JM wrote:
Sorry about the Evil post I'll try to correct myself in future
postings :)
I think I'm following now.
QAM is how the signal is delivered over cable and the HD content is
either scrambled or unscrambled. OTA is a more a reference for HD
content over the airwaves.
Yes. OTA
On 9/1/05, Zak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
p.s. I've never heard of a Cablecard who makes that?I thought twice about mentioning this, but I figured somebody would jumpin and call me on it.Don't worry about it for now - it's basically an
alternative to a cable box, but you must have an TV that
On Thursday 01 September 2005 15:19, Donavan Stanley wrote:
On 9/1/05, Zak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
p.s. I've never heard of a Cablecard who makes that?
I thought twice about mentioning this, but I figured somebody would jump
in and call me on it. Don't worry about it for now - it's
QAM is how the signal is delivered over cable and the HD content is
either scrambled or unscrambled.
Think of QAM as AM vs. FM... basically the same thing. It's how
the digital stream is modulated on the analog signal. It shapes how much
RF spectrum is used by the signal (among other
On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 10:41 -0400, Cory Papenfuss wrote:
The 5th (QAM) is typically used for digital signals
OK, I am now 100% confused. What do you call analog cable? I thought
that was QAM. The reason I thought that was because I can plug my analog
(not digital) cable into an HD3000, and it
On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Greg Woods wrote:
On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 10:41 -0400, Cory Papenfuss wrote:
The 5th (QAM) is typically used for digital signals
OK, I am now 100% confused. What do you call analog cable? I thought
that was QAM. The reason I thought that was because I can plug my analog
On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 12:29 -0400, Cory Papenfuss wrote:
I think where you are getting confused is that the HD3000 is three
cards in one:\
Not only that, but it appears that different types of signals can be
handled by the same physical input port. The card has only one coax
port, but
Not only that, but it appears that different types of signals can be
handled by the same physical input port. The card has only one coax
port, but if it can handle both digital and analog cable, it follows
that it magically detects which signal is on the coax port and does the
right thing with
On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Cory Papenfuss wrote:
With that in mind, there are probably limitations on how much of
the card can be used at once. In other words, it's probably not possible
to simultaneously record an OTA HDTV signal while capturing SDTV via the
svideo input... the CX88 chip
I could be wrong here, but I am fairly sure that your use of SD to as an
alias for VSB is not correct. SD and HD are both digital formats and not
analog, the difference being the resolution. Conventional frame-grabber
cards don't and can't do SD. They do as you correctly said earlier,
receive
I'm looking for some background on HD since I currently only run in SD.
Can someone give me the lay of the land as far as being able to recieve HD and watch HD?I assume, bad word on my behalf, that byowning an HD card (HD2000- HD3000) that thedecoding portion of the signal is complete all that is
I don't have an HD card, and don't even have cable, so please take
whatever I say with a huge grain of salt.
As I understand it, HD requires a digital signal, which means a
digital cable box. But just because you have a digital box doesn't
necessarily mean HD. My folks upgraded to digital cable
Like Mr. Smolka, I don't have either of those cards - I have the MyHD,
though.
Both the 2000 and 3000 take a raw HD signal and simply save the stream.
There are two ways to get an HD signal via a PC card - OTA (over the
air) and QAM (cable).
If you plug in a UHF antenna to either the 2000
Thanks for the posts guys.
So, do the HD cards do a similar job as the PVR250 or PVR350 where it encodes on the fly to an MPEG file (save the stream as you say)?Just how
If you have the3000, I believe it supports QAM, which means you can plug the cablestraight into the card and receive any
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 19:56:20 -0700, A JM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So, from what I understandfrom my friends HD is like in the upper 500's
on
our cable system which mimics it's counterpart on in SD let's say
channel 3.
Will I be able to tune to the 500's HD channels or are you saying if
Dewey Smolka wrote:
How large would an HD file be? An SD file for me for about an hour of
viewing is 3 gig give or take a bit.
I don't have any first hand experience, but around 20-40 GB per hour
is the figure I've seen batted around. I'm not sure if that's 720p or
1080i, but for me, it
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