[ale] [OT] Digital TV conversion box

[James Sumners]

I just wanted to clarify the distinction. The original poster asked
about converters. He didn't give any indication of what he actually
wants to do with them.

On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 1:10 PM, Calvin Harrigan
<charriglists at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> James Sumners wrote:
>> The HD HomeRun is not the same thing as a DTV converter. It is solely
>> an ATSC tuner (actually two of them) that passes the raw MPEG-2 stream
>> to whatever device is capable of reading it through the ethernet port.
>> Usually such a device is going to be a computer; specifically, some
>> sort of DVR.
>
> It's not a converter, agreed. He did ask about Ethernet/USB connectivity
> , which in my mind puts in in the realm of a digital tuner.  If it
> solely converted from ATSC to NTSC, what would be the point of having
> Ethernet/USB on it if it wasn't to connect it to a computer?
> Those devices have to convert the incoming mpeg stream to an analog
> signal then either feed it out directly as s-video/composite or
> remodulate it.  In speculation I would imagine that he would like to get
> the signal before it's ran through the DACs.

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