[mythtvnz] Freeview in SD?

[Jason Haar]

Wade Maxfield wrote:
> 
> The VIA MPEG2 acceleration only works for video up to around 1024x768 
> from memory (or something similar - definitely not HD).  So you'd have 
> to scale the frame size while transcoding. In which case it might be 
> better to just record the SD version.
> 

..except you can't? (as far as I know)

I mean, if you have a DVB-T card, then you can only receive HD - right?

I'm certainly under the impression I'd need a satellite dish and a DVB-S 
card if I wanted "direct" SD digital.

Please tell me I'm wrong :-)

Jason