[ale] Good TV tuner card?

Scott Castaline hscast at charter.net
Mon Apr 6 16:14:05 EDT 2009


Chris Kleeschulte wrote:
> That would be me mentioning that I use the HDHomeRun with a mythtv 
> setup. I have been for about a year and it works great. You can also use 
> it with Windows since the output is just mpeg2ts. It does QAM for cable 
> tv signals and VSB-8 for over the air signals. Obviously, it will NOT 
> "tune" analog signals. Analog will be extinct soon and should have been 
> in Feb., thanks congress.
> 
> You can't go wrong with the HDHomerun. I did have to replace the power 
> supply transformer, but the company paid for it and sent it really quick. 
> 
> 
> thanks,
> Chris Kleeschulte
> 
> On Apr 4, 2009, at 12:31 PM, Ben Alexander wrote:
> 
>> I would suggest looking at the HDHomeRun by Silicon Dust.  I have not 
>> used with MythTv but I know in another thread someone just mentioned 
>> using it with MythTv.  I use mine with Windows Media Center.  It has 
>> ATSC and QAM - not sure about NTSC?
>>
>> http://www.silicondust.com/products/hdhomerun_atsc
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Adam <prozaconstilts at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:prozaconstilts at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hi all,
>>
>>     As I prepare to build a MythTV rig, I find myself stuck trying to
>>     decide
>>     what kind of TV tuner card to use.
>>
>>     Of course, I'd like the pie in the sky solution: a card that works
>>     with
>>     Linux and Windows, can capture NTSC and ATSC (and QAM if
>>     possible), and
>>     all that jazz, so I'm not relegated to a single platform or signal, in
>>     case I decide to change things up one day.
>>
>>     About the best I can find is the Hauppauge HVR 1600:
>>
>>     http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Hauppauge_HVR-1600
>>
>>     It's getting a good amount of development (claims the history for the
>>     page), and has the old PVR-150 tuner for analog, as well as an ATSC
>>     tuner that Hauppauge/Conexant has provided firmware for.
>>
>>     In Windows, it pretty much just works, as good as Hauppauge's software
>>     has ever worked.
>>
>>     Does anyone else have suggestions for the holy grail of TV tuners?
>>
>>     Adam
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Chris,
     That has two tuners, can they both pick up DTV on cable or is one 
for cable and the other strictly OTA?


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