I have been told more than once that the Amiko Alien receivers can PVR 4:2:2 signals, but cannot play them in real time. I do not know how accurate that is, but it's something I would really like to know for sure - in particular, whether the Alien receivers will PVR the CBS 4:2:2 feeds reliably, with no jerkiness or other weirdness in the video.
(This may have been what Kraven was referring to when he said "PC Playback", since I don't think the Amiko Aliens can play recorded 4:2:2 signals either, but supposedly you can use the Alien to record the signals and then play the recordings on a PC).
I have been told more than once that the Amiko Alien receivers can PVR 4:2:2 signals, but cannot play them in real time. I do not know how accurate that is, but it's something I would really like to know for sure - in particular, whether the Alien receivers will PVR the CBS 4:2:2 feeds reliably, with no jerkiness or other weirdness in the video.
(This may have been what Kraven was referring to when he said "PC Playback", since I don't think the Amiko Aliens can play recorded 4:2:2 signals either, but supposedly you can use the Alien to record the signals and then play the recordings on a PC).
Almost anything can record 4:2:2 and playback later on a device with 4:2:2 codec. Alien & Alien2 do better, they can livestream to a laptop, HTPC or Android for real time playback. I can't get 89W CBS to test but another guy that wrote a how-to on doing this put up a pic of the webinterface doing it fine.