Tuesday, February 06, 2007

The HDTV PVR problem

I spent a significant amount of time in the last week researching ways to convert my PC into a media center that can record HDTV so that I can replay it via the media center extender in the xbox 360. I am getting COMCAST HDTV over cable - QAM encoded free channels, equivalent to the Over-The-Air programming that I just couldn't easily get with a room antenna where I live.

The end result - it is just not possible. There are tuners which can decode QAM channels, but even Vistas Media Center cannot record QAM just yet - and likely never will. Solutions that can accept cable cards to record HDTV from cable sources will be sold as complete computer only, I won't be able to build my own.

So sad.

On the upside, I just save several hundreds of dollars I would have otherwise spent on a new computer.

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