OT: How best to record "off-the-air" HD-TV?

[Technomage-hawke]

MythTV can do it (along with some other gui/cli tools that can handle HD and 
digital streams).


On Thursday 11 October 2007 15:38, Josef Lowder wrote:
> .
> This might not be OT if there is a way to use a Linux computer
> to do what I want to do.
>
> Being fed up with cable/dish gouging and being force-fed 100+
> garbage channels that we *do not* want, a few months ago,
> we switched to just viewing "off-the-air" TV.  The HD signal
> is so fabulous that we don't even watch anything that is not HD.
>
> The one problem, however, is that I have been told there is no
> way to record HD (and other digital) channels from "off-the-air"
> broadcast; and that the only way record HD-TV is with a Tivo and
> being forced to pay a monthly subscription fee?
>
> Is this true, or are there any other HD-recording products
> available and some other way to record HD programs "off-the-air"?
>
> Searching the 'net, I found that there used to be a Sony HD-DVR
> that could record HD "off-the-air" but it was a very costly
> product and is no longer available unless you can find a used
> one on ebay.
>
> Are there any other options?
>
>
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