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| DATE | 2008-05-10 |
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] [blu@vl.com: Re: Hauppauge HD-PVR]
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Jarod Wilson wrote:
>Tom Metro wrote:
>>The specs say it has a "H.264 AVCHD video encoder." Does that mean it is
>>re-encoding the already encoded HD streams, or is that just for the NTSC
>>recordings?
>
>THAT is the kick-ass part. (more in a sec)
>
>>What do you see as the advantage to this device over other HD tuners for
>>use with MythTV?
>
>So what this device takes in is high definition (or whatever def)
>component video (ypbpr), and in hardware, encodes that analog signal
>into an h264 stream, which is fed over usb2 to your pvr machine. Where
>this is *awesome* is for people with satellite, who previously had no
>way to record anything better than 720x480 w/o being locked into their
>sat provider's dvr, and similar for those with cable boxes.
Ah...so it's a device to take advantage of the "analog hole" in DRMed HD
video. Now I see the appeal. I've read that you've been able to do this
for a while, just not cost effectively. What's the expected price of
this device?
Hauppauge needs to revise their marketing, if this is the main value add
of the device. Of course they probably need to walk a fine line and not
make it too obvious that it is most useful for DRM subversion, or they'd
get sued under DMCA (although that might be a stretch, seeing as they
aren't unencrypting anything).
The sad part is that this device would largely be unnecessary if it were
not for DRM.
-Tom
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