xhonzi said:
Hmmm.. do we need to ask someone in particular. Who here does this kind of thing?
I'm that guy. That one solitary guy on both forums. (Sigh)
But only on Comcast. They let me cap by firewire. (See bottom link in my sig).
Jesus H. Rodrigues!!! Can they make it any tougher to capture???
Comcast doesn't carry HDNet channels. (The best they'll do is On Demand for the original programming only. In 5 cities - which I don't live in).
AT&T U-Verse has HD-Net. But not the firewire capture. AT&T would need an an HD capture card or HD Personal DVR. I have neither. And I don't think I can afford to get both U-Verse TV and Comcast TV.
Verizon carries HD Net. I'd love to have FIOS bandwidth - and the last I heard, Verizon lets you do the firewire thing on most/all channels. But it's not likely to spread out beyond a tiny patch of the county above us.
Many Sattelite providers carry HD Net. But none have the firewire thing.
All cable providers have firewire. But half of them have DVRs with broken firewire. Of the good half, it's random chance if they have HD Net. A lot of cable are very stingy with HD channels.
If the world worked the way it should, a Verizon customer, or a Non-Comcast cable customer, would post HD firewire caps to Usenet. But tons of stuff that should be up there, never shows up.
Depressing Update: Bon Voyage has been on since May, and the only HD on Usenet is a Christmas special "Charlie Brown's Christmas Tales", which is on DVD. A few things in SD, but not "Race" or "Bon Voyage".
Don't get your hopes up... but I'll ask around and see if I can dig up somebody on U-Verse. See if I can hang an SD Personal DVR off their SD output. That'd be pitiful, but better than nothing. (It'd be nice if they'd get it on their AT&T DVR, but I don't know anyone who's DVR isn't chronic-ly full.
Oh! Hey marioxb! How's it goin?