HDTV question

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I just went through this myself. The short answer is NO.

While I am not familiar with the ATI HD cards, I am sure that there is no
card that can capture HD input. The best you can do is capture the Svideo
output from your receiver OR capture OTA hdtv using a tuner card (from an
antenna, not from a satellite). Some cable companies may broadcast HD
content unencrypted so that a tuner card can capture it, but I don't think
that is real common. I am guessing that with the new PCI express we may be
a little closer to HD capture, but we aren't there yet.

--Dan

"greymamba" <pocguy@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I dont have a HDTV but I do want to set up my PC to get HDTV. I'm
> looking at that ati hdtv card that you put in the PC. So my question
> is, if you have lets say comcast coaxial cable or dish network
> sattelite, can you plug it into your ati card in the PC and get a HDTV
> signal? thanks

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klaatu <blob@optonline.net> wrote in
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> I am a newbie/lurker on this group and learning more every day.
> It looks to me like someone at ATI doesn't know what HD means.
> The cand is not HD from what I read.
> They also don't know that there is no such thing as a HDTV antenna.
>
> On 26 Jul 2004 13:19:32 -0700, pocguy@hotmail.com (greymamba) wrote:
>
>>I dont have a HDTV but I do want to set up my PC to get HDTV. I'm
>>looking at that ati hdtv card that you put in the PC. So my question
>>is, if you have lets say comcast coaxial cable or dish network
>>sattelite, can you plug it into your ati card in the PC and get a HDTV
>>signal? thanks

Their website specifically says that it will only display HDTV from its
own built-in ATSC tuner. In other words it will not work with cable or
satellite boxes. I would expect another product that comes with a DVI or
component input in the not-too-distant future, though.


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I searched but couldn't find your post with that card info, but I would
really like to know about it. If you can find the post with google or
remember the card name, I would really appreciate it!

Thanks,
--Dan

"Jeff Rife" <wevsr@nabs.net> wrote in message
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> dg (dan_gus@hotmail.com) wrote in alt.tv.tech.hdtv:
> > While I am not familiar with the ATI HD cards, I am sure that there is
no
> > card that can capture HD input.
>
> There is at least one PCI card that can capture component video and re-
> compress it on the fly, but the price starts at $2,000. No, I don't
recall
> the name at this time, but I've posted it before so it should be in
Google.
>
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I checked that post, but it instructs me to search a TIVO forum for another
post of yours, which you have 437 of. Can you narrow it down at all?

Thanks,
--Dan

"Jeff Rife" <wevsr@nabs.net> wrote in message
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> dg (dan_gus@hotmail.com) wrote in alt.tv.tech.hdtv:
> > I searched but couldn't find your post with that card info, but I would
> > really like to know about it. If you can find the post with google or
> > remember the card name, I would really appreciate it!
>
> Oddly enough, I found the post on the first search:
>
>
http://www.google.com/groups?selm= [...] s.nabs.net
>
>
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