Comments on: Hauppauge Component HD Encoder Update

By: John Alexander

John Alexander — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:52:50 +0000

Or am I dumb, and that’s not a picture of the Hauppauge?

By: John Alexander

John Alexander — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:51:18 +0000

Uhm, I’m looking at this picture, and then I looked at the Motorola 6412 (I think) that I got from Cox as my HD tuner/DVR. They back sides are essentially the same, the only thing that appears to be missing from this that the Motorola has is the cable card port and the HDMI port. Wonder if they are just using Motorola’s board with the Hauppauge chip?

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 00:34:15 +0000

Will it accept DVI and/or digital sound? Or, and I know I’m reaching here, HDMI?

I’ve got some favorite college football games on my satelite DVR that I want to archive.

By: Glenn

Glenn — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:56:39 +0000

Unless the media companies can convince equipment vendors, including SA and MOT, that they should not include component outputs anymore, or that they should only do SD output on component. Problem in the near term is that a lot of HD or HD-ready TVs were sold without HDMI. I’d bet more HD cable boxes are currently installed with component cables rather than HDMI… my last HD cable box from Comcast didn’t even have an HDMI port, thought the new one does (I moved).

I suspect it’ll take years for this to really change.

By: Bob Sully

Bob Sully — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:55:12 +0000

Hopefully this thing will have Linux drivers – Happauge has been pretty friendly about this. Sign me up for at least one of them….can’t wait to use it with MythTV. Finally I’ll be able to record the HD content that I pay for….!

By: andy

andy — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 04:06:11 +0000

This device totally baffles me and I love it. I guess I’ll state the obvious, but wont this device pretty much mean the end to any sort of content protection for HD source material that up to this point wasn’t feasibly recorded due to lack of low cost HD processing via component? So basically, any encryption that DVI or HDMI spec’s included are useless since component signals are not encrypted.

By: Marc Novakowski

Marc Novakowski — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 21:17:49 +0000

This is great news for anyone living in a non-US country where CableCARD is not an option (nor will it ever be). I will now be counting the days for TiVo to release a non-cablecard HD DVR!

By: Dave Zatz

Dave Zatz — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 20:47:12 +0000

The HDMI certification doesn’t permit recording functionality at this time. As far as pricing, I’m curious too – wonder how low they can get it?