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I have. I managed to short out the power bar that all my HT equipment was plugged into. It blew the fuses in my receiver and the Voom STB. I did not want to wait around for a tech to come out when I knew it was a simple fuse so I opened it up and threw a new one in. I'm renting the equipment...

Ah, that makes sense. That is actually a really efficient use of CPU cycles (letting all of the encoding occur at the head end and just storing at the DVR) and I guess reduces the necessary horsepower in the DVR.

Ha, wow. That is so much money. I guess I should stop dreaming and just be patient and wait for the DVR. Thanks for the info though, it really is more involved than I had original anticipated. One thing comes to mind though, if the DVR is going to (most likely, this is speculation) have just...

The ones that I ran across were for mostly video editing and used an SDI connection. A quick google search brought me here: http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?O=NavBar&A=search&Q=&ci=6702 All of those solutions are cost prohibitive (at least for what I would want to pay to...

Of course now that I have read more about it I'm confused as to whether or not it does true HD. It keeps talking about its component inputs and their superior quality but it never says the key words; High Definition.

Well I guess I get to answer my own post, I found this: http://www.pluggedin.tv/sweetspot/ Looks pretty cool and costs about $270 usd (the company appears to be in Britain).

Exactly! I haven't found a Component video capture card or for that matter any HD capture card under $2000! I too would have a HTPC DVR but I can not find a good way to get the signal (in HD) from the Voom STB to the computer. I would love to capture using Windows Media 9 encoder ( a free...