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HDTV via GNU Radio

Posted by michael on from the giddy-with-anticipation dept.

NortonDC writes "High Definition TV has been successfully captured in its native data stream from an over the air broadcast by a software defined radio that is Free and open source from the GNU Software Defined Radio project."

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  1. Aspect ratio? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    HDTV is either 1920x1080 (1080i) or 1280x720 (720p). Where did the 2730x1088 resolution come from? It's obviously wrong (the images are obviously scrunched vertically).

  2. Those aspect ratios are off. by kalgen · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The images on the site are at 2740x1088 resolution, but HDTV at max resolution is 1920x1080. You can tell from looking at the images that they're horizontally stretched, so something weird is going on.

  3. Good And Bad by sidespace · · Score: 5, Interesting

    A Linux-friendly HDTV recording solution is definitely needed. Unfortunately, it seems that in order to record HDTV you need a $1300 Analog Input Board.

    Can anyone with more knowledge about this project please post a less expensive solution if one exists?