[Cialug] HDHomeRun

[Jonathan A. Kollasch]

On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 05:42:30PM -0500, Dave Weis wrote:
> Jonathan A. Kollasch wrote:
> >On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 03:48:01PM -0500, Jeffrey C. Ollie wrote:
> >>Interesting new doohickey for those of you into home-brew DVR:  Two HDTV
> >>tuners and an ethernet port in a box for $169.  The best news is that
> >>there is a LGPL command line client that runs on Linux for controlling
> >>it, plus it's supported by MythTV.  I know what just went to the top of
> >>my father's day wish list...
> >
> >I got one a month or two ago. It works great.  Using it for OTA-8VSB
> >reception, don't have cable.  Of course, this being HDTV, you are
> >working with 6-8G of data an hour.  Plus, it takes a pretty good machine
> >(or a slower box with a XvMC-compatible video card) just to play
> >it.  I have one tuner set up to work with mythtv, and the other
> >one is mostly a record-only kind of thing run out of cron.
> 
> For those of us that aren't HD enhanced, will it tune normal cable and 
> OTA channels?

No, it can't digitize analog NTSC.

	Jonathan Kollasch
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