what card for HD DVR?

[mikek753]

Hello All,

I need just record HD video and audio (2ch or DD) to PC, I'm not looking for OTA HD TV tuner.

Can ATI AVIVO be used for that? What card I should look for?

As for HD sources:
1. TV set with HD tuner
2. Dish set with HD receiver

thanks.

 

[jevans64]

There are a couple ( DViCo FusionHDTV, ElGato EyeTV ) out that will allow you to record UNSCRAMBLED satellite signals ( like from the big dishes ), but I am not aware of any that will work with the small dish systems like Dish or DirecTV. The ones that support DVB-S do so with software and will eat up A LOT of CPU cycles. I have a Dish 811 HD receiver and watch HD on my 24" LCD and use a Theater 550 Pro card and a breakout box to record content downsized to 480p from the S-Video output. It will be some time before we will see AFFORDABLE hardware-based solutions with either a DVI-D or Component input because of the greedy corporate a**holes that will be fighting over copy protection.

 

[EffeX]

HD (1080i,720p) Capture Cards run in the 1000$ range I hope you are rich.

 

[mikek753]

wow ...
then no HD DVR for a while :-(

 

[Rage187]

if the hd tuner has firewire, hook it up to your pc.

check out this thread:

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=403695

I did the above for 6 months prior to getting a HDDVR from comcast.