[Cialug] MythTV HD tuner?

Tue Dec 2 15:20:04 CST 2008

I don't think HDHR will ever do CableCard. CableLabs wouldn't certify it, so they could never sell it. Typical..

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nathan C. Smith" <nathan.smith at ipmvs.com>
To: "Central Iowa Linux Users Group" <cialug at cialug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 2, 2008 3:19:22 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
Subject: RE: [Cialug] MythTV HD tuner?

Maybe for Digital cable somebody knows better, but I think we are SOL.

Somebody here turned me on to the silicon HDHomerun and it is a pretty neat dual-tuner setup.  http://www.silicondust.com/products/hdhomerun

Maybe they will introduce one that accepts cablecards in the future.

Don't forget, you actually have to have a machine capable of playing back HD.  I think my backend machine will do some but my front-end, a 1.2 Ghz shuttle, will not.

-Nate

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org 
> [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf Of David Champion
> Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 3:15 PM
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> Subject: [Cialug] MythTV HD tuner?
> 
> For those of you MythTV users... what's the current state of 
> the art for 
> HD tuners for MythTV?
> 
> I'm updating to a HDTV for xmas, and thinking about re-building my 
> MythTV box. Have a PVR-250 card I can use for SD encoding, but I'm 
> thinking about getting a HD card too.
> 
> I don't have HD service yet (other than OTA). Currently my 
> only option 
> at my condo is Mediacom cable, and I'm only doing Extended 
> Basic at this 
> point. I've been trying to work on getting dish service in 
> the building, 
> but that's a longer process that has to go through the condo 
> association.
> 
> -dc
> 
> 
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