Invisible wrote:
> Actually, what *might* be useful is if I could hook up my computer to 
> another computer and record its output. (There are programs which are 
> supposed to record what's on your screen, but none of them actually 
> work.) I have no idea what kind of equipment you need to record a DVI 
> signal though...

Cost me $15, including shipping.  I got a pretty good deal, though; I 
think these usually go for $20 +shipping.

If you want one that will decrypt digital cable, then it costs about 
$250-$300.  That's probably because there's only one on the market at 
the moment (it has to accept a CableCard, a standard set by a consortium 
of US Cable companies).

However, there are others that can accept digital cable signals that 
aren't scrambled on the market for about $50.

Oh, and most of these cards do hardware MPEG encoding, so if you ask 
Media Center to record something, it doesn't eat very many CPU cycles.

...Chambers

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