* Alvin Oga (aoga@ns.Linux-Consulting.com) [041228 13:39]: > > > On Tue, 28 Dec 2004, jeff elkins wrote: > > > I recently acquired a 60 inch LCD HDTV system, which has vga input - great for > > games and such, but living where I live OTA HDTV is not happening! It's HDTV > > via DISH-TV or DirecTV or none at all. My understanding is that MythTV and > > other linux-based systems only capture over-the-air HDTV -- no cable or dish. > > that'd depend on your tv capture card > - you should be able to feed your cable into your card > and get ntsc or svga or svideo or rgb (best) > > most cards after Dec 31, 2004 will no longer be legally able to > record hdtv signals ( silly broadcast flag by the broadcast industry ) According to the EFF, the cutoff is actually July 2005, so you have a few months yet. good times, Vineet -- http://www.doorstop.net/ -- http://www.aclu.org/ It's all about Freedom.
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