Re: New to RokuHD1k product

On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 09:21:42PM -0700, John Booher wrote:
> What I desire is something that can record the component video signal out of
> the cable box and allow me to store it as an MPG file.

Realtime MPEG encoding of analog/component video at HDTV resolutions
would probably cost at least $10000.

For cable boxes, the already mentioned Firewire solution is your best
bet.  I think a friend has had luck recording stuff with VirtualDVHS
on MacOS.  The main issue is whether your cable box will provide the
data or not.  You should probably take a look at the HDTV recording
forum over at avsforum.com, they have tons of information on this
stuff.

If you have a satellite receiver, there's places such as 169time that
can modify it to output the data.  However 169time streams are
intended specifically for DVHS machines and might not play back
smoothly on the HD1000.

                                                  -Dave Dodge