[PLUG] MythTV on the small and cheap.
Jeme A Brelin
jeme at brelin.net
Tue Apr 20 12:15:02 UTC 2004
On Tue, 20 Apr 2004, Elliott Mitchell wrote:
> > From: Jeme A Brelin <jeme at brelin.net>
> > I've been using my PC and its TVOut stuff to feed my television DVD
> > and DiVX ;-) videos for quite some time. But now the TV is kind of
> > dying and I'm seriously considering just using a big old monitor
> > instead of a television. The only trick is the VCR. I still want
> > access to the tapes. So I will need TV-in so I can watch VHS on the
> > computer (as well as digitize analog input, which is cool).
>
> Being able to convert them is useful, but do you actually need to do so?
There are definitely some things I have on VHS which I'd love to
distribute digitally.
> You can get a box to convert S-Video to VGA signals for about $100.
Yet, I can get a bt8x8 card for $40.
J.
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