<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div><br>>So I should get by fine with a pcHDTV, an Nvidia GeForce 7600GS<br>>(integrated HDTV encoder), and my DVI LCD capable of 1280x720? How<br>>long will 100GB of drive space last me?<br></div></div><br>You should be ok with only a pcHDTV card mine works fine but YMMV.<br>the Geforce 7600GS doesn't have an "integrated HDTV encoder" it has <br>"High-definition H.264, MPEG2 and WMV9 decode acceleration"<br>which is not the same as having an encoder or a decoder. The older (6 series and older)<br>Nvidia cards have video MPEG2/WMV decoders on them but you have to be careful of which vendor<br>you get the card from, not every vendor sticks to the
reference specs when building there cards.<br>And HDTV is just an MPEG2 stream if it is Over-The-Air HDTV, cable HDTV does not follow<br>the HDTV specs, is compressed to fit there pipe, and in a totally different format that varies from one cable company to the next.<br>But to give you some piece of mind, MythTV can now stores all of its video in MPEG2 Format as well as MPEG4 and RTJPEG (mpeg2 recordings are stored as mpg files, mpeg4 and rtjpeg are stored as nuv files using mythtv's modified nupple video codec.)<br><br>-Ron<br></div></div></body></html>