Recording HDTV through firewire

[AJ Bertelson]

After reading threads like this
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showt...hreadid=353608

I have really been starting to wonder about the possibility of recording HDTV through firewire. It seems possible and the FCC has mandated that cable customers that want a firewire box can have one on April 1st(begining of 1st quarter). The problem is though is thats when 5c copy protection will mostly be enabled but there is a piece of software that will be able to use the 5c copy protection. http://www.vividlogic.com/products/default.html

Would it be possible for sageTV to integrate with the software to tape HDTV? It seems like there is no way to change channels for this and sage would work well with this.

[stanger89]

I am really curious to see just how much stuff is "In the Clear"

On a side note, it would be very interesting if Sage could impliment Havi support an be able to control Havi compliant devices. I'm not sure how hard that would be but since both Havi and SageTV are Java based it would seem conceivable at least.

[Deadbolt]

This would be very very sweet as each firewire connection would count as another tuner. Still have to IR blast it though...or can you change channels through firewire upstream?

Deadbolt

[sleonard]

My new Scientific Atlanta 3250 HD box from Cox cable has both Firewire and USB connections. I called to see if the they are (or going to be) enabled and they told me that both would eventually be and that the USB port was specifically for watching TV through a computer! It would be really nice if I could use one or the other for Sage.

[AJ Bertelson]

The plot gets more interesting
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showt...0&pagenumber=1

Found this on the second page.

Originally posted by bdraw
You take a HDTV tuner with Firewire out, and plug it into your PC.

Run capdvhs can it captures the mpeg transport stream to your Harddrive. You can watch it or re-encode it for archive.

For some people who already have a Tuner with firewire out this is great, since it doesn't require any other hardware. If you don't have a tuner with firewire you are better off just buying a HDTV capture card for your PC.

Personally using the integrated HDTV tuner that came in my Mitsubishi ws55711 to capture via my firewire port that is in my ATI AIW 8500DV.