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

[Jon 'maddog' Hall]

On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 11:33 -0400, Thomas Charron wrote:
> HD video capture cards
> which can take composite inputs?
> 

Google knows all, and there seems to be a whole series of solutions,
although they all seem to be pretty high-priced.

There seemed to be a few "cards" that did the whole thing, and then
there were "compositors" that took it from input to SDI (whatever that
is) then cards that took SDI the rest of the way.

>From what I saw of a quick "Google", the prices are in the range of
$1400. to $2500., but I did not spend a lot of time.

Right now the number of devices that produce HD video out which could be
fed back into HD composite in (and the number of people that want to do
that) is probably small, and the technology to do that in "real time"
seems to be expensive.  It is just a huge amount of data.

As more people want to do this, I will assume there will be more
companies and devices that will show up, and the prices will drop.  On
the other hand, you could be "the first on your block."

Perhaps others know of some less expensive solutions.

md