TV Cards with Component input

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mashvk

Guys,

Are there tv tuner cards available in the market that can take a
component input?

thanks,
mashVk
 
Cari said:
Not yet. It may never happen due to the DMCA.
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In principle this can be done using a component-to-hd-sdi converter and
feeding the output of that into an hd-sdi-to-firewire bridge--you're
looking at about 4000 bucks and it's pro hardware so don't expect it to be
consumer-friendly.
 
mashvk said:
Are there tv tuner cards available in the market that
can take a component input?
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Might be easier to find if having a tuner is not a requirement.

There seem to be many frame grabber / video input / video
import cards with "component input" out there, such as:
<http://www.stream-video.com/drcstream.htm>
<http://www.bluefish444.com/products/retail/detail/SDenvy.htm>
<http://www.dpictimaging.com/Products/Aexeon.html>

But they are a bit vague as to whether the component is
YPbPr, YCrCb, YUV or even RGB. Then there's the matter
of legacy component (SDTV/480i) vs. the HD formats.
 
Cari said:
Not yet. It may never happen due to the DMCA.
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That doesn't seem to be the inhibitor (for YPbPr, anyway,
it may very well might be why DVD players don't have DVI).

Here's another card with component in.
<http://www.matrox.com/video/products/axio/io.cfm>
It's probably not cheap.

My guess is that component-in is rare because it's
expensive. It requires 3 sync'd ADCs, and because
there are several ways of doing "component", each
likely with variations in connectors, signal level,
gamma, sync, impedance, color model, color
space, data structure, etc., that a card maker needs
to support multiple in order to get acceptable volume.
 
lol, i was thinking component, and composite looked the same, and i
just happened to see it... meh, oh well
 
mashvk said:
Guys,

Are there tv tuner cards available in the market that can take a
component input?
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Very unlikely--I won't say "no" categorically because the computer market
being what it is there's always the possibility of something of which I am
unaware, but if there is it is a well kept secret.

There are capture boards without a tuner that have component capability but
they are pro equipment and priced accordingly--typically in the $1000+
range if you want HD.

There are IIRC some that will capture SD via component IIRC that are less
expensive--is that what you need?
 
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