Thanks Tom, not only the facts, but a discount price source too. :-) Having a script set to transcode the files smaller is something I'd probably want too. The files are much too large for me to save as-is. I looked it up, by default the ATSC data stream is MPEG2 format and around 3MB/s. Doug. Thomas Lunde wrote: > $100 from Newegg. I use this. > The stream is already encoded for storage. > That said, I do use a quad core box on the backend and a Myth "user job" there to transcode everything into a smaller space for long term storage and so that I can play the shows on my phone& tablet.