Affordable video capturing card

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 07:14:55AM -0700, Tyler Aviss wrote:
> You mean an actual PVR or a PVR card?. If the card, who's your
> television provider?
> 
> I had a rather rude shock shortly after moving back to western Canada.
> Shortly after acquiring a PVR-250 (hauppauge) and *finally* getting
> all my MythTV stuff to work, the buggers at the default Cableco (Shaw)
> switched everything to digital. This renders my analog card fairly
> useless unless I want to manually preset the channels on the digital
> box, and apparently the digital signal is encrypted so a digital PVR
> card would be equally unhelpful.
> 
> I was led to believe it was the same with Rogers/Bell. Is this not the case?

Analog cable is still fine on rogers.  Bell is satelite and has always
required a receiver box.

Rogers has slowly been removing analog channels, but so far most of them
are still there.  If they ever remove them all I will have to cancel
cable since it will no longer be useful at all.

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Len Sorensen
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