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Originally Posted by William Eng
Now that I have a high def TV in my family room and enjoying all the free OTA digital content, I have a dilemma about how to record this content for later viewing. I realized that neither the VCR nor the DVD recorder picks up the digital signal going through it. What are the alternatives? TiVO?, high def DVD recorder? Digital to analog converter box?
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You can record easily if you get a PCI card, like a
Twinhan 1020a, or perhaps one of the more available new versions. However playing it back to your TV then becomes the problem. If you can find a used Roku HD1000, that is a great solution. I record
HD stuff on the computer, and play it back through the Roku via a network connection. The Roku has been discontinued, but you can still find them on EBAY. I've read posts about a couple new devices that do similar things though, so there may soon be some other options.
If you have a VERY fast computer, and the right video card, with an HD output, you can play back some HD directly from your computer to the TV. However it has to be REALLY fast, like up in the 3 GHz range, and you need a good motherboard with a lot of a certain kind of cache ram, which I can't remember the name of.