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HDTV On Your PC And Hard Drive

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the wouldn't-it-be-nice dept.

Jack Kolesar writes: "So, you want to watch HDTV but you don't want to shell out thousands of dollars for a new television. Well, AMDPower.com has a review of the AccessDTV HDTV tuner card. Not only does it let you watch HDTV, but you can also record it on your harddrive. Yes, the full 19.4Mbps stream of 8VSB is stored in raw format. Now, if somebody out there could just make some linux drivers for it ..."

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  1. HDTV Protections? by Foxxz · · Score: 1, Troll
    I thought all of that stuff was supposed to be encrypted and have access controls on it? or am I thinking of something else? I give it two weeks tops before they're in a lawsuit. pity we have to put up with this stuff as it is.

    -foxxz

  2. MPAA? by rmadmin · · Score: 0, Troll

    Isn't the MPAA or some other terrorist.. I mean recording organization going to try and ban this? Cuz if you can record it on your hard drive, the evil linux hackers will circumvent the copy protection and redistribute it! Pfft.. *kicks the DMCA and MPAA over to afghanistan*

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