computer graphics card with HDTV input

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Hello,

Would anyone know if there is a graphics card out there that would
take a HDTV input from a cablebox?

It seems there are a number of PC graphics cards out there that will
take an 'over the air' input, but what the world REALLY needs is a
card that will receive (input) HD signals straight from the popular HD
cable boxes that are out there.

So, does ANYONE know of such a card?

Ron

Archived from groups: alt.tv.tech.hdtv (More info?)

Bill,

Thanks for the prompt reply and helpful information.

Just to be sure I understand: the reason you can't input an HDTV
signal from a cable box to a computer graphics card for less than
$10,000 are strictly technical issues and not legal or political
issues.

Is that correct?

Ron







Bill <no@spam.com> wrote in message news:<Xns94F4F78B80B3kf6bbl@216.196.105.134>...
> rgraham1@maine.rr.com (Ron) wrote in news:1a366fd4.0405241446.1484a911
> @posting.google.com:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > Would anyone know if there is a graphics card out there that would
> > take a HDTV input from a cablebox?
> >
> > It seems there are a number of PC graphics cards out there that will
> > take an 'over the air' input, but what the world REALLY needs is a
> > card that will receive (input) HD signals straight from the popular HD
> > cable boxes that are out there.
> >
> > So, does ANYONE know of such a card?
> >
> > Ron
> >
>
> If you are looking for a card to capture component video, it doesn't
> exist. The cards out there now can capture over the air only because it
> is still compressed to it's 19Mb MPEG (max) stream. Once uncompressed,
> either in the form of DVI or analog component video, it would need to be
> re-MPEG encoded in real time. There are boxes that broadcasters use to do
> this and cost 10s of thousands of $$.