#Beyondtv vs sagetv drivers#

There is one solution that I first read about at the MythTV wiki. That leaves one thinking of a fool-proof method of recording HDMI with HDCP which is explicitly what the HDCP encryption guards against. SageTV and BeyondTV both offer support for this and I have read the results are excellent.

#Beyondtv vs sagetv drivers#

There are very early drivers for the HD-PVR to work with MythTV but I am waiting for these to mature into a beta release before I go down this road. Look at the long drawn out analog TV cutoff that may be extended yet again by Obama. I will not put it past them but it would take time to do without alienating customers. The cable company's only recourse would be to turn off or degrade the component HD which would render all HD TV's that were not HDMI with HDCP pretty worthless. This device is designed specifically to record the analog component HD signal from a cable box or DVR which cannot ever have any copy protection. This was the reason that I got excited about the HD-PVR made by Hauppauge. Recording Component HD using the Analog Hole I also don't want to go buy a special computer with altered bios in order to support cable card recording with Windows Vista Media Center such as Dell and others provide. This set me searching for a solution that allows me to record the premium HD content and have the same freedom I have with my current recordings. The current trend is to have a set top box or DVR provide the premium HD content that I currently don't have the ability to record. I have succeeded in building a system that records HD over cable with QAM and records SD from basic cable. At the time I was also worried about the broadcast flag and I wanted a system that would totally ignore anything similar down the road.

No DRM, no expiration dates, and no hassles. One of my main reasons for building a MythTV was so that I could record HD and SD programming and then do anything I wanted with it. Since this article has been popular I wanted to revisit it and update it for 2009. I wrote a little while ago on recording HD using what is called the 'analog hole' in my previous post.