Greetings. I'm currently a Dish network subscriber. When I receive my new Samsung HLN507 (soon I hope!), I'll probably be switching to Comcast HDTV and giving up the PVR, which I LOVE!
Has anyone come up with a good PC based replacement for a PVR? I'm not inetrested in a TiVo or ReplayTV or anything that charges me a monthly fee and won't let me archive the content. I've been looking at the Hauppage cards and the ATI All in Wonder cards. I've got an extra computer I can dedicate for this use.
Does anyone have any experience with these (or other solutions)? I want something that will record with decent clarity, since I will be viewing it on an HDTV. Also, something that preserves the digital sound so I can feed it back to my receiver. Also, how do these things work if I try and record a Hi Def signal? With copy protection, will it only be able to handle something like S-Video ins and out?
Thanks a lot, and please forgive any "newbieness" here.
Has anyone come up with a good PC based replacement for a PVR? I'm not inetrested in a TiVo or ReplayTV or anything that charges me a monthly fee and won't let me archive the content. I've been looking at the Hauppage cards and the ATI All in Wonder cards. I've got an extra computer I can dedicate for this use.
Does anyone have any experience with these (or other solutions)? I want something that will record with decent clarity, since I will be viewing it on an HDTV. Also, something that preserves the digital sound so I can feed it back to my receiver. Also, how do these things work if I try and record a Hi Def signal? With copy protection, will it only be able to handle something like S-Video ins and out?
Thanks a lot, and please forgive any "newbieness" here.