[Cialug] MythTV installfest?

[Jonathan Bailey]

Thought on HDTV....

According to the FCC, all cable boxes must have FireWire on request.
Mediacom has a FW box for their HDTV & PVR service, although if you want it
installed for HDTV service (the lower rate), you MUST have them install it
to an HDTV. The only other issue with FW recording is the fact that not all
shows can be recorded (think HBO, etc). I have not practiced this yet, but I
believe it is true. Anybody using Firewire on their Myth boxes?



Jon 

-----Original Message-----
From: cialug-admin@cialug.org [mailto:cialug-admin@cialug.org] On Behalf Of
Wyatt Davis
Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2005 1:24 PM
To: cialug@cialug.org
Subject: Re: [Cialug] MythTV installfest?

IIRC HDTV can have a higher resolution that DVD. Also the problem with DVD
is that it is lossy compressed video. You get artifacts and such in the dark
areas. I think HDTV is still compressed, but less so. I can't wait to see
fully uncompressed or lossless compressed 1080i HDTV.

On 4/21/05, Nathan C. Smith <smith@ipmvs.com> wrote:
> 
> Maybe we could have a Cialug MythTV installfest?  It seems several 
> people are interested in getting MythTV working on their machines and 
> we have several people familiar with it.
> 
> BTW, magicITX
> (http://www.magicitx.com/modules.php?name=catalog&file=index&cPath=25) 
> has the OEM WinTV PVR-250 MCE for $80.  I'll let you know how they 
> work soon
> ;-)  They are just the card, no software, no remote, no wires, no IR 
> receiver.  In fact, they even lack the leads for the IR receiver.
> 
> Some people associated with the EFF are really pushing people to get 
> HDTV tuner cards before the broadcast flag goes into effect.  Does 
> Anybody have/use HDTV?  Is it really visibly better quality than DVD?
> 
> -Nate
> 
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