DVico - Fusion

I have the Fusion HDTV DVB-T Plus card for my computer.
It plays and records both hi & standard def on your computer.
There are some newer ones out like the dual tuner version.

Have a look through their website for info and models.

ohh now i am confused again. The "over the air hd" was what was confusing me before. So does the fusion work with hd cable? I am dying to get rid of my cable box so my pc can run everything. I need a card that works with digital cable, will record hd programming, and all that fun stuff my hd cable box does currently. Is there a way to have the cable box and one of these cards work together. I mean saving money to not have the box is much less of a concern than trying to streamline my media through only one connection (aka my pc) rather than having to switch between the two for my projector.

May I confuse you more? Do you know what standard of HDTV you want? 1080i, 1080p, 720i etc?

Personally I run ATI. I looked through that DViCO site, and Ill be derned if I can find a spec as to what standard of HDTV they are working to. As for the over the air vs cable question, initially most HDTV telecasts were local (whatever you location) broadcast transmission. The cable compnaies have been comming on line the past 12 months or so, but typically only offer a limited selection of HDTV channels, i.e. 149 channels, but only 8 in HD. Sorry bud, but your pretty much going to have to keep your box, if you've got any premium channels at least. The box not only tunes, but descrambles on premium channels.

Looking through the vendors for the DViCO stuff, they claim both broadcast as well as cable HD unencrypted though they dont specifically state a standard either, it looks like 1080i. It looks like DViCO may be your solution. At this time, ATI still offers over the air HD tuning only

Vendor can be found here
http://www.cyberestore.com/dvico-f [...] p-207.html

ok well I thank you for that link but I think a lot of that went off topic some of it made things more confusing and some added a bit of info.

OK well my projector displays 1080i and 720p along with some non standards

Are there tv tuners that can take the video in from the digital cable box and run the hi def channels and high def premium (HBO) channels as well? Are the software channel guides close to as good as my cable provider?

Is there any word on tuners coming out in the near future that support what I am looking for?

the big problem here, is that cable and satellite companies are not cooperating with video card manufacturers. They claim to be "working on it", but HDTV has been broadcasting for years now, and you almost cannot buy a non-HDTV support TV of any kind anymore. Don't you think by now the video cards would support it if they could?

Broadcasting companies are standing in the way of the consumer's access to be able to view and record broadcasted HDTV signals. They never liked the decision back in the day for VCR's being legal to allow recording of television shows, but now decades later, FAR FAR more people are *gasp* BUYING television shows in DVD format which were already broadcast! Take a look at any music store these days and see how many OLD tv shows are now available for purchase. Some shows cost over $100/season (especially Star Trek seasons)!

They WANT you to have to buy/rent their HDTV cable boxes/PVR's for some insane price, and they do not even allow you to specify what resolution, sound format, etc you wish to record at! You can bet the measly hardware in a Rogers PVR (for example) is NOT recording HDTV at its raw resolution quality, or with high quality WAV sound, because it's hard for a complete PC to even do that right now.

Don't buy their HDTV and PVR crap, because they will not allow us to build effective HTPC's for even VIEWING an encrypted HDTV signal. Why should I buy a $500 (canadian) Rogers HD pvr, when I could spend $1000 for a complete PC with far better hardware capable of doing the same thing, but Rogers does not allow me to do so.

At this point your best bet would be to get a onkyo receiver or another that up converts to signal to HD.