In case you have not seen it.....Linux Media Center

[Thomas Charron]

On 3/25/07, Jon 'maddog' Hall <maddog at li.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 01:26 -0400, Thomas Charron wrote:
> >   If only that applied to Sat TV such as DirecTV.  *pout*
> I have never had "Sat TV", but it seems to me that if you could get the
> timing information of when the programs were going to be shown, then you
> could record those programs even if you were just recording the "analog
> signal" going to the TV for playback later (i.e. put it back into an
> encoder to put out on the disk).  The IR could be programmed to switch
> to the channel required off the satellite box.
> After all, a lot of people have gotten a lot of pleasure out of watching
> "analog TV" for many years.
> Am I missing something?

  Analog is the word there.  :-)  I was referring to HD TV via
DirecTV.  And unfortionatly, the only solution which is coming out for
this is lead by Microsoft in a Microsoft/DirecTV partnership.

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-- Thomas