I understand what your saying here, but again get rid of the jargon....
PAL is 720x576 res, as a rule its composite, so Hauppauge makes a PVR (PVR150 which takes this and turns it to MPEG, done........
What your saying is HD images are no longer composite (from what you are saying above), and if they are composite then you are saying it will be down ressed to 720x576 pixels (as per PAL, NTSC is different).......
Ignore the fact you can get cards with tuners stick to the PVR150 as an example as most in the UK use this for the composite input from the SKY box, most people in the UK use the Composite or S-Video input.
i will do some research on this as regards the signal content with regards HD etc.... although you do raise a valid point if you can get your mits on the undecodded stream then yes i assume you can save it.
I happen to know SKY in the UK use MPG but its encrypted and the decryption is not possible as they spent so much money doing there own hardward to do this no one can copy it (got stories here about that).
However i also know the SKY+ box just streams the satellite data straight to hard disk (this is how they know its MPG encrypted). Also PACE when they made the first SKY box had a firewire output for stuff like GBPVR but SKY went nuts, took the box and plans and destroyed the lot, this is just something they didnt want to do (4 years later SKY+ which explains why they didnt want other to record there channels, they where going to do there own PVR AND make it so when your card expires you cant watch them either, hence saving the encrypted data so you NEED the card to see it, a firewire out would mean its standard watchable MPG file, SKY didnt like this (hence went nuts)).
PAL is 720x576 res, as a rule its composite, so Hauppauge makes a PVR (PVR150 which takes this and turns it to MPEG, done........
What your saying is HD images are no longer composite (from what you are saying above), and if they are composite then you are saying it will be down ressed to 720x576 pixels (as per PAL, NTSC is different).......
Ignore the fact you can get cards with tuners stick to the PVR150 as an example as most in the UK use this for the composite input from the SKY box, most people in the UK use the Composite or S-Video input.
i will do some research on this as regards the signal content with regards HD etc.... although you do raise a valid point if you can get your mits on the undecodded stream then yes i assume you can save it.
I happen to know SKY in the UK use MPG but its encrypted and the decryption is not possible as they spent so much money doing there own hardward to do this no one can copy it (got stories here about that).
However i also know the SKY+ box just streams the satellite data straight to hard disk (this is how they know its MPG encrypted). Also PACE when they made the first SKY box had a firewire output for stuff like GBPVR but SKY went nuts, took the box and plans and destroyed the lot, this is just something they didnt want to do (4 years later SKY+ which explains why they didnt want other to record there channels, they where going to do there own PVR AND make it so when your card expires you cant watch them either, hence saving the encrypted data so you NEED the card to see it, a firewire out would mean its standard watchable MPG file, SKY didnt like this (hence went nuts)).
