[pvrusb2] Looking for the next generation

[roger]

On Sun, 2007-11-04 at 07:23 -0600, Mike Isely wrote:
> On Sat, 3 Nov 2007, roger wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 2007-11-03 at 15:10 -0700, Steven Karp wrote:
> > > Not really on topic, for which I apologize.  If someone can recommend a more 
> > > appropriate place for this sort of question, please do!
> > > 
> > > Having just upgraded my satellite to add HD channels, I'd love to find a 
> > > device like my beloved Hauppauge box that supports HD.  I'd prefer USB over 
> > > PCI so I can swap it between two machines easily.  All of the devices I can 
> > > find out there that say anything about HD are primarily tuners; some of them 
> > > also have SVideo inputs.
> > > 
> > > Is there anything out there that will take an HDMI or Component input and 
> > > produce output in some useable form (mpeg2, mpeg4, etc.)?  Bonus points if it 
> > > costs less than 4 figures in US dollars
> > 
> > I posted something like this several months ago.  From the info I
> > gathered, expect HDTV/Digital TV (ATSC) products to start hitting the
> > market by 2008.
> > 
> > I too am a devoted fan of my pvrusb2... too make mention of the
> > extremely stable pvrusb2 driver as well! ;-)
> > 
> > (Another good place to ask this question is on the #pvrusb2 freenode irc
> > channel.)
> 
> I have to imagine that Hauppauge, the most well known player in the 
> field of tv capture devices, is not sitting still on this either.

Yup. This pvrusb2 device is the first TV computer related piece of h/w
I've bought that I really liked & used easily.

I take it every where with my laptop!


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Mon Nov 5 10:16:33 AKST 2007