HD cap card
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A DVI cap card?
You mean a card that can capture DVI output of a device to your hard drive?
If so, you won't find one and why is this in this section?
You mean a card that can capture DVI output of a device to your hard drive?
If so, you won't find one and why is this in this section?
This should be mover to the PC or gadget area, but most quality DV capture cards will utilize a breakout cable that will support a few connection types and then you may need to use an adapter to merge you device to it; so don't expect a consumer item.
What source material are you wanting to go into the card?
What type of PC connection? PCI? USB/External?
You will need a ton of processing and cooling and HDD.
http://www.teamsolutions.co.uk/
Winnov Videum Duo HERE
I use the Winnov Videum 1000 Plus
http://www.videomediasolutions.com/videumduo.html
Take a look HERE and see if this my solve your needs.
What source material are you wanting to go into the card?
What type of PC connection? PCI? USB/External?
You will need a ton of processing and cooling and HDD.
http://www.teamsolutions.co.uk/
Winnov Videum Duo HERE
I use the Winnov Videum 1000 Plus
http://www.videomediasolutions.com/videumduo.html
Take a look HERE and see if this my solve your needs.
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I doubt you will have any HD capable cards with DVI inputs near the $500 range. You are going into gear still in the pro or studio range.
What Charper1 is telling you is that it is a lot more complicated than you think to record HD from a non-DVR set top box.
To get the HD stream to a computer I'd use something like this (assuming your receiver is compatible):
http://www.nextcomwireless.com/r5000/home.htm
It sure as heck isn't doable under $200 but the people that have done it are recording HD as good as it comes.
If it won't work directly with the Myth box, I'm sure the MythTV box could either get the stream or the recordings from whatever PC is interfacing the R5000 modded receiver.
To get the HD stream to a computer I'd use something like this (assuming your receiver is compatible):
http://www.nextcomwireless.com/r5000/home.htm
It sure as heck isn't doable under $200 but the people that have done it are recording HD as good as it comes.
If it won't work directly with the Myth box, I'm sure the MythTV box could either get the stream or the recordings from whatever PC is interfacing the R5000 modded receiver.
The OP didn't mention what kind of HD receiver is friend has, but the r5000 mod will work for most satellite boxes. I use one with 4dtv and record the master HD signals from HBO, Showtime, Starz, and Discovery. Like Shawn said, it isn't cheap, but the picture quality is most excellent. 
Incidentally, r5000 doesn't work with Myth, but they do have Sage integration now.
If you're friend happens to be using an OTA receiver, then a MyHD card would be an excellent choice and it does output DVI through a daughter card. I think the cost is down to around $224 these days for the MyHD card and the daughter card combo. The nice thing about MyHD is all encoding and decoding is done in hardware, so it puts next to no load on your PC. A very minimal PC can easily handle OTA HD recording with one.
Incidentally, r5000 doesn't work with Myth, but they do have Sage integration now.If you're friend happens to be using an OTA receiver, then a MyHD card would be an excellent choice and it does output DVI through a daughter card. I think the cost is down to around $224 these days for the MyHD card and the daughter card combo. The nice thing about MyHD is all encoding and decoding is done in hardware, so it puts next to no load on your PC. A very minimal PC can easily handle OTA HD recording with one.
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