Is there such an HDTV Card ??

[thatdude90210]

Yeah, as much as I like the Myhd 130 card, it's nowhere close to the near-automated recording I get from Sagetv. Clicking on Titantv to record is basically the computer version of punching in gemstar vcr+ codes.

And I also think pausing live tv is a bit over-hyped, I hardly ever use the pause live tv feature on the Myhd 130... rarely use it in Sagetv too.

[stanger89]

Originally Posted by thatdude90210

Yeah, as much as I like the Myhd 130 card, it's nowhere close to the near-automated recording I get from Sagetv. Clicking on Titantv to record is basically the computer version of punching in gemstar vcr+ codes.

That's assuming it actually works (which it doesn't well for QAM recordings).

[flavius]

Originally Posted by stanger89

First off, I think "pausing live TV" is the most overblown feature of digital recording, and about the least important. I can almost count on 1 hand the number of times I've "paused Live TV" in the years I've been using digital recorders..

As always, there's more than one angle to this. Being a former TiVo owner, I can say pausing Live TV was the most important feature, a feature that actually changed our lives.

With the advent of the PVR in our house, some two years ago, and with four tuners in all and plenty hard drive space - well, nobody watches Live TV any more, but that's a different story.
And there's still stuff that a lot of people prefer to watch live.