HD Fury Question

[Savage1701]

Just wondering if anyone out there has done an actual comparison between taking an HDMI out into an HD Fury and then feeding the Fury's component out to either an HD-PVR or Colossus, vs. just taking the stock component output of their provider's (Dish, DirecTV, Cable) hardware and feeding that to a HD-PVR or Colossus.

I wanted to know if the Fury could create a "better" trans-coded 1080i component picture vs. a 1080i "stock" output on the receiver they were using, assuming all other things such as the HD-PVR/Colussus bit rates set high enough, etc.

Long story short, I'd be willing to plunk down $200-$300 on a Fury if I could get a better trans-coded 1080i component out than the stock component outs on my HD Dish receiver.

Thanks in advance for any info.

[peternm22]

I believe there are some HDMI "splitters" on Amazon that can actually strip out HDCP from HDMI. You can then pass this into an HD-PVR or Colossus with an HDMI input.

I believe the splitters are fairly reasonably priced last time I checked ($20-$30 maybe)?

Doing it this way would completely negate the need to use component at all.

[Savage1701]

I've heard that those are very hit-or-miss in terms of getting one that actually strips the HDCP out, and that models that can actually do that are being pulled.

In any event, I'm looking to see if anyone has actually tried a side-by-side with the HD Fury. I'm not going to try a HDCP stripper, and the HD-PVR I currently use can't take HDMI anyway. I have a Colossus v1 as a backup, but I'm not bringing it online unless I have to.

Thank for the reply.