dledeaux said:
ATI has a video capture card that can record 1080i, but you can only play it back in a 1080i window on the monitor. There is no hi definition capable output.
http://www.pchdtv.com/ has a hi def capture card, but it only works with OTA. I believe Hauppauge has an HD capture card but I'm not sure it will do anything other than OTA either.
What product does ATI have that can record HD? I was not aware of any product out there (sub $10,000) that can record and real-time compress HD video. And it only displaying on the monitor not a problem, as most tv's can be driven by a computer with little to no problems. I am currently watching TV on my screen from a PC with an NVidia GeForceFX 5200, running SageTV. Awesome quality, especially from HD sources... but, of course, it is not truly HD (though the DScaler does a really good impression of HD) The only consumer level products I've seen for HD capture are for either OTA only (tuner card that can send the compressed stream directly to disk) or cable/dish boxes with firewire on them that sends the compressed stream to the harddisk. Either of these COULD (in theory) work for an HD TiVo-like device, but neither would work with Voom.
As antoher note, what would REALLY make the computer DVR user happy would be some better way to control the channels on the Voom box than just IR. Serial communication would be perfect, like some directtv boxes have. The delay in switching channels makes surfing impossible from the SageTV box.