<br><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>> Personally, I think that the best thing that can happen for<br>> enthusiasts is that the analog component path remains a primary video
<br>> pathway. Hopefully soon someone will come out with a commodity<br>> component HD encoder so that we can record HD from cableboxes.<br>> Something like the HDHomeRun but for component it would be very cool.
<br><br>From what I have read, the chance of such a device being produced and sold<br>at an affordable price to consumers is extremely low because of the high<br>bandwidth and processing effort required for HD signals. We'd be talking
<br>broadcast quality video systems.<br><br>Well, Moore's Law is powerful, so never say never... but it would be a good<br>few years away.</blockquote><div><br>We've been reading that for long enough that a few of those years have passed. There is already one company selling a sub $1000 analog capture card (
<a href="http://www.blackmagic-design.com/products/hd/">http://www.blackmagic-design.com/products/hd/</a>). If they can offer it to video production professionals for under $1000, that probably means sub $500 consumer models are theoretically possible right now.
</div><br></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>TV/IT Engineer<br>WCJB-TV Gainesville, FL<br>(352) 377 2020 x248<br><a href="mailto:cribe@wcjb.com">cribe@wcjb.com</a>