Ridiculous statement made by digitalconnection.com

[ima2hd]

From: sales@digitalconnection.com
To: Will Forster
Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 1:15 PM
Subject: RE: DVI/Component IN for PC


Dear Will,

We are not aware of any such product as capturing non-compressed data from these outputs would require enormous amounts of horsepower and storage spage.

Best Regards,
Customer Support
Digital Connection

-----Original Message-----
From: Will Forster [mailto:ima2hd@comwares.net]
Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 6:20 AM
To: sales@digitalconnection.com
Subject: Re: DVI/Component IN for PC


Well it is stated under the subject, but here is what I need a device that will allow any of the following into my personal computer DVI/HDMI or Component video no I don't need a pass through such as the daughter card you sell; but an actual input. AGP/PCI/USB 2.0 are all availiable on my PC as options for such a device.

Regards,
William Forster

[ima2hd]

I currently have a DVR-921 from Echostar it captures 25hrs of HD on a 250G hard drive. In addition I gave DVI/HDMI as an option component input is
completely fine to get the signal into my PC. All I need is a device to do so.

----- Original Message -----
From: sales@digitalconnection.com
To: Will Forster
Sent: Friday, February 18, 2005 1:46 PM
Subject: RE: DVI/Component IN for PC


Firewire output is compressed TS streams. Once the signal is decoded, it is no longer compressed and would require 200GB or so per hour to capture if you were to do so via DVI or HDMI output. Both of these digital connections were chosen to eliminate capture capabilities.

Best Regards,
Customer Support
Digital Connection

[edDV]

Is anyone suggesting uncompressing the *.TS streams? The goal is to record them DVR style.

DVI and HDMI outputs are encrypted with HDCP to prevent transfer to a PC and digital copying. No news there. Why is he trying to argue technical limitations?

http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/volume_11_4/feature-dvi-hdmi-hdcp-connections-11-2004.html

Component analog capture would require either hardware encoding* or a temporary uncompressed (or a lightly compressed) intermediate storage format. Then a non-realtime software encoder could be used.

A nice dream product would be a Canopus ADVC type box with component analog in and HDV out.

* possible hardware encoding standards: HDV, MPeg2 *.TS, WMV-HD, DivxHD, or h.264.