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> On Thu, 01 May 2008 22:23:21 GMT in Technicolor? <cinerama@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> wrote:
>
> | Does anyone know why we haven't seen the creation of a RF Modulator
> similar
> | to the ones we've been using with our video games, cameras, etc.? You
> know
> | the type I'm talking about? Inside one end you present a baseband
video
> | signal, and then, out the other, comes either Channel 3 or Channel 4
> which
> | you can connect to the set with twin lead or coax with an F connector.
> |
> | It seems to me that it would be really great to have a product like
this
> | where one could introduce a component signal (RGB or YpRpB) or an
> DVI/HDMI
> | signal and have a 1080i/720p signal coming out on 1 or 2 HDTV digital
> | channels. Is this product not being developed because of DRM
concerns?
>
> It would not be hard for the device that outputs protected content (e.g.
a
> BR-DVD player) to simply refuse to output the program over the RF
> connection.
> But, given that most content played will be such protected content (at
> least
> Sony thinks it would be), where is the value to have such an output in
> BluRay
> if it will hardly ever be used?
>
> OTOH, a PVR designed to play programs received from OTA, that should not
> be
> a problem in terms of DRM. Neither should such a modulator for a
computer
> as a plug-in card or USB/Firewire attached device.
>
> A device that takes a component signal, however, would have to have
> compression
> included. And that makes it an expensive device. I've been looking for
a
> computer card that can take in component video, compress it, and pass it
> over
> the bus to the software driver in a compressed format like MPEG4,
MPEG4-IO
> *,
> MJPEG, H.264, ATSC trans****t, etc. Ideally I'd like one that can do it
> with
> 4:4:4 sampling, too.
>
> [*] MPEG4-IO = MPEG4 with I-frames only (no B/P-frames)
>
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> | Phil Howard KA9WGN (email for humans: first name in lower case at
> ipal.net)
Have you seen the Hauppauge HD PVR model 1212, it accepts a 1080i
component
input and will compress in real-time to H.264
http://www.hauppauge.com/site/products/data_hdpvr.html
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