Record HDTV via Firewire in MCE

[Jeremy Charette]

http://www.thenears.com/archives/165/

"Looks like this has been around for a while now, but something I just stumbled upon again today and thought I should mention it here. This hack will allow you to record HDTV or SDTV signals off of the firewire port in your set-top box. Reading the included docs, it looks like it’s actually a parallel recording process that then wraps itself in dvr-ms and plugs in the metadata from the analog recording that it is recording in parallel."



I actually stumbled across this myself a few weeks ago when I got my new Scientific Atlanta 8300HD DVR box from Time Warner. It looks relatively simple, and the ability to record HD signals to an MCE PC is unprecedented. Hopefully manufacturers will start to incorporate features like this into the hardware right out of the box. Some sort of digital set top box is going to be necessary to use digital cable, which most people have. Hacks like this are going to be the only way to access that digital feed, unless something changes. CableCARD sure isn't looking like a promising answer. :?

[Jeremy Charette]

http://www.thenears.com/archives/165/

"Looks like this has been around for a while now, but something I just stumbled upon again today and thought I should mention it here. This hack will allow you to record HDTV or SDTV signals off of the firewire port in your set-top box. Reading the included docs, it looks like it’s actually a parallel recording process that then wraps itself in dvr-ms and plugs in the metadata from the analog recording that it is recording in parallel."



I actually stumbled across this myself a few weeks ago when I got my new Scientific Atlanta 8300HD DVR box from Time Warner. It looks relatively simple, and the ability to record HD signals to an MCE PC is unprecedented. Hopefully manufacturers will start to incorporate features like this into the hardware right out of the box. Some sort of digital set top box is going to be necessary to use digital cable, which most people have. Hacks like this are going to be the only way to access that digital feed, unless something changes. CableCARD sure isn't looking like a promising answer. :?

[James Fee]

CableCARD sure isn't looking like a promising answer

Then again some of us ex-TiVo users stuck on the SA 8300 HD are looking for CableCARD as our salvation from a horrible interface on the SA DVR. I'll tell you this, I'll be first in line to buy the new CableCARD HD TiVo the day it arrives.

[Jason Dunn]

Has anyone actually done this yet? What are the results like? I'm a bit fuzzy on exactly how the MCE sees the TV box...