Where these things would be useful *today* is for people with digital cable "service". Where certain broadcasts are shown with full resolution available only over HDMI/HDCP, and the resolution is deliberately crippled (or shut off completely) on the analog outputs from the set-top box.

The HDFury2 is a way around that, to permit time-shifting of such "premium content".

The Hauppauge device is useful under these circumstances only when combined with the HDFury2 thingie.

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