drngr said:
An $150 card that can only capture unencrypted HDMI or analog YPbPr to 13Mbps H.264 with no option for uncompressed 2-channel audio (forced AAC)
vs.
A $110 card that can capture any HDMI or YPbPr to uncompressed/lossless with uncompressed 2-channel audio
Not drinking that Hauppauge Kool-Aid.
Sorry. I want 5.1 AC3 over 2 channel audio. What exactly are you recording in HD that ISN'T 5.1???
The only problem is the re-encoding which, if you set it to a high enough bitrate, it should be virtually transparent.
In any case, with the new splitter that has just been discovered, it renders all of this moot. It removes HDCP.
Problem solved.
Apparently the Blackmagic will pass through up to 8 channels of audio.
This thread seems to be making more trouble out of it than it deserves. Don't complicate it.