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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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    Can all fish swim?
  3. Let me get this straight... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    As if recent events (attacks on the World Trade Centres, Anthrax Attacks) raising our collective conciousness into a state of terror wasn't bad enough, Hallowe'en is just around the corner. Soon, a new terror, a spooky terror, will unfold as the souls of thousands of innocent civilians who died raise from the dead on All Hallow's Eve to terrorise yawl's neighborhood. And you people have the gall to be discussing HDTV???? My *god*, people, GET SOME PRIORITIES!

    The angry souls of the recent dead could give a good god damn about HDTV, instead preferring to wander the areas where they met their untimely ends, seeking out unwitting victims for retribution. By all means, on the evening of Hallowe'en, try to avoid the area around Ground Zero of the WTC, the area near the Pentagon, and the crash site in Pennsylvania unless you don't mind becoming a victim of terror (a very spooky terror indeed), yourself.

    You have been warned!

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