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You know of any computer video cards that do RGBHV in or YPrPb in..  i want to record HD.. but none of the cable boxes or sat boxes i can get in ontario here have firewire enabled.  Unless you know someone who can hook me up with a firewire enabled cable box.

http://www.ramelectronics.net/html/hdtv-cards.html

you could use a card like thoses and record hd straight from the tuner

and check for DVB-S tuner card  ;)
if you still have that  direct tv dish you could recycle into dishnetwork now

Alain

not quite what i'm lookin for..  need a more.. umm.. "professional" card..  being as your in the industry i didn't know if you knew of anything that might work.. that's oh.. sitting on a shelf somewhere..

component in or vga in.. linux drivers are a plus..

i know a few things more expensive but probably not supported by Linux
http://www.adstech.com/
check for the Pyro external boxes you connect the box to your source in components and the box to the pc with firewire
some supports hdtv 1080i with a plug in

same kind of boxes could be found with the Dazzle brand

the next step is stuff like matrox digisuite and they cost several thousand $$$

on a different way of doing it there is a FTA satellite receiver called the Dreambox , which with the right firmware can fully open dishnetwork for free, it`s a pvr and its linux based, you could record on the internal hd and remove the movies with your pc connected on the dreambox ethernet port I`m not sure right now if the dreambox fully support hdtv

another way is to buy one of  the satellite pci tuner cards , most of them support hdtv with the software MyTheater , and of course with the right patch will also fully open dishnetwork

at home I'm currently running a FTA receiver called Fortec Lifetime Ultra with a dishnetwork patch it's a basic model doesn't support HD but sat is back :)

Alain