HDTV questions

[jfox95]

I am looking at buying a HDTV (not till after Christmas when the prices should fall haha). But I am doing some research on em now.

I was just wondering about how I can get HDTV signals to my GBPVR then to my HDTV without losing quality.

I know there are HDTV tuners out there. But I have 3 regular NTSC tuners right now and use my video card (fx 5200) tv out (svideo). If I add the HDTV tuner, I will still be able to use the other tuners, right? Are you able to change the inputs in GBPVR? Say I am watching Tuner 1 (non hdtv) and I goto a change that is hdtv, can I switch to Tuner 2 (HDTV)?

Also about the video card - can the 5200 handle hdtv singals? It has a DVI output. Will there be some quality loss there?

Thanks

[Darx-starz]

I am looking at buying a HDTV (not till after Christmas when the prices should fall haha). But I am doing some research on em now.

I was just wondering about how I can get HDTV signals to my GBPVR then to my HDTV without losing quality.

I know there are HDTV tuners out there. But I have 3 regular NTSC tuners right now and use my video card (fx 5200) tv out (svideo). If I add the HDTV tuner, I will still be able to use the other tuners, right? Are you able to change the inputs in GBPVR? Say I am watching Tuner 1 (non hdtv) and I goto a change that is hdtv, can I switch to Tuner 2 (HDTV)?

Also about the video card - can the 5200 handle hdtv singals? It has a DVI output. Will there be some quality loss there?

Thanks

I have a HDMI interface on my TV amd I also have a FX5200 card. I purchased a DVI male to HDMI cable and setup the graphics for 720P. Works good. Nice clear picture. For HDTV in the US I think you need a ATSC card. Sub has added support for that recently.

[CaptainVideo]

What about the program guide? When setting up Zapt2it I don't rememeber seeing HDTV options. Is it possible to program manually?

Has anyone tried using GB-PVR stateside with an HDTV tuner card? All the DTV talk I've seen seems to originate from Europe.

[-stattik-]

You can add HDTV lineups from Zap2It. I've been running it for a few weeks now. You have to manually add the channels though. I'm using a DVICO Fusion3 HDTV Gold-T. Other are using the Fusion5.

[CaptainVideo]

Great!

My limited experience tells me you end up with a program stream on your hard drive, not an MPEG2 file. Is this a problem?

[sub]

A program stream is a regular MPEG2 file. I think you're thinking 'transport stream' which is a much more difficult form of MPEG2 to deal with.

If you use the Cyberlink mux, it produces a program stream file (.mpg file).

If you use the Microsoft DVR-MS mux, then it produces a .dvr-ms file.

[nitrogen_widget]

Can I use a digital card with my direct-tv reciever the same way other's use the cable line or am I limited to digital signal over the air?

I don't know if the standard defintition direct-tv box only passes an analog signal.