Posts by Gopher In Heat

I heard that the 62U's did not pass audio from HDMI to the optical out. Will someone who has one of the 64U's confirm that it does pass 5.1 audio via HDMI to the optical out?

Quote: Originally Posted by jmscott42 Did anyone ever figure out a solution to this? I picked up a couple of these today from Circuit City as open box. Couldn't pass it up. I'm in a bit of a different situation, the TV it's hooked up...

Quote: Originally Posted by andysc Do you also receive any analog channels? If so, could you tell me which range? Thanks again. Most are blocked but I do get a few analogs - TBS (channel 3), Discovery Health (channel 60-something),...

I subscribe to only Roadrunner (no TV package) and I get all the unencrypted HD channels just fine. Both ATSC and Roadrunner use QAM modulation. It would be hard to filter just one but not the other. Likewise I'll bet...

Quote: Originally Posted by mml7 Thanks for the answers! So here's a question in a similar vein. If (some of) the local Boston stations are encrypting the ATSC / OTA signal, why does something like Tivo HD work? Forgive me if it's...

Quote: Originally Posted by FriarWyer This person was asking about OTA streams from the built-in ATSC tuner in his TV, not from a cable company STB. In this case, DTCP encryption is indeed added by the FireWire hardware in the TV....

Quote: Originally Posted by FriarWyer If VirtualDVHS is recording a stream from a TV, but the counter doesn't count up, then it is most likely due the fact that the stream is DTCP encrpyted. The counter is driven by VirtualDVHS...

Quote: Originally Posted by Chimpware Archiving content is another issue. I edited a half hour of HDTV to 20 minutes by removing commercials using MPEG Streamclip and then output to H.264 mp4 files with bitrate of 3500. resulting file...

Quote: Originally Posted by zim2dive Been playing more with the SDK and my cable box (SA8300HD). What I'm finding is this... - I cannot record live from the air - I cannot record from the chase buffer (ie. start a recording and...

One thing to note is that it is not possible to view the premium channels on the iMac because they are encrypted. Your cable box will output an encrypted signal which your Mac won't be able to view. There is no way to watch encrypted...