recording ClearQAM

[7/14/10] After an unsuccessful attempt with Windows Media Player years ago, I still haven't given up hope of using a computer as a DVR (instead of paying a monthly fee to use Oceanic's service).

Should I do this, one piece of software I might look at is GB-PVR [via frwr_news].

GB-PVR is a mature, robust, full-featured Personal Video Recorder (PVR) or Media Center which runs on Microsoft Windows. It's main function is scheduling tv recording and watching live tv, but it can also playback a wide variety of media types across music, videos and photos. The application is made even more useful with a wide range of plugins available, providing features like weather, music jukeboxes, netflix etc.

GB-PVR supports the latest technologies, including ATSC/ClearQAM/DVB-C/DVB-T/DVB-S capture devices, high definition MPEG2 and H.264 television channels, media extenders (Popcorn Hour, Hauppauge MediaMVP etc), multidec support, multi-record (recording multiple digital channels with one tuner), etc.

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article [written 9/8/10] explaining the difference between NTSC, ATSC, QAM, ClearQAM

Here's one product that can tune and record ClearQAM: Hauppage HVR-950Q (stick).

And it looks like SiliconDust HDHomerun Connect and HDHomerun Extend can also receive ClearQAM.  Looks pretty easy to set up.  But I wonder if it works with Roku?  Not directly.

This article describes how to use HDHRFling to allow the Roku to show videos captured on the HDHomerun.  They also explain how to use a Roku with a Tablo which is much simpler.  But unfortunately the Tablo doesn't support QAM.  Ah, here's another option.  The article goes on to state that you can use a Fire TV with the HDHomerun (!)

Another option is to use Wallop.

Gleevec

Everyone hopes and wishes for that last-minute cancer breakthrough that will save doomed patients. It almost never actually happens. With Gleevec, it did.

The once-a-day pill turned chronic myelogenous leukemia, or CML, from a certain death sentence into a manageable disease. Now data shows it's helped 83 percent of patients live 10 years or longer, even with side-effects that include a characteristic rash, nausea and fatigue.

And some may be able to stop taking the pills altogether, even though they are not cured, the original team of researchers reported in the New England Journal of Medicine Thursday.

"It's the first targeted personalized medicine that had ever been used. It was also the most successful," said Dr. Richard Silver, a hematologist and oncologist at New York Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medical Center who helped first test the drug in patients.

"This has been the thrill of my life," Silver told NBC News.

Before Gleevec hit the market, CML patients had three options: treatment with toxic chemotherapy, a bone marrow transplant, or just dying. Even with treatment, patients rarely lived longer than three years. "It was really a death warrant," Silver said.

Gleevec worked so well and so quickly that the trial testing the drug against the older chemo regimen was stopped so everyone could get the pill. Food and Drug Administration approval was swift and now the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society estimates 36,000 to 100,000 Americans are CML survivors.