[ale] Mythtv Build-In

[Scott Castaline]

H P Ladds wrote:
> Hey Paul,
>
> Good news for you. Last month the Digital Television Transition and 
> Public Safety Act was signed into law. It states that by Feb. 17, 2009 
> all television in the US will be broadcast digitally.
>
> In short, if today you can receive any signal (however fuzzy) with an 
> pair of rabbit ears, you'll very likely be able to get crystal clear 
> digital reception -- for free -- sometime between now and 2/17/2009. 
> All you'll need is a digital antenna. Oh! and a Mythtv box would be 
> helpful.
>
>
> On 3/16/06, *Paul Cartwright* <paul_tbot at pcartwright.com 
> <mailto:paul_tbot at pcartwright.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Thu March 16 2006 7:34 am, Cliff Free wrote:
>     > The PVR350 is Hauppauge's Personal Video Recorder PCI card with a HW
>     > MPEG2 codec and an FM reciever. It works with basic cable.
>
>     so, if I hooked this card into my splitter from the DISH feed, it
>     would
>     receive the signal? or is this just the recording piece, that needs
>     the feed from the HD3000..
>
>     > The
>     > HD3000 is made by pcHDTV and is a PCI ATSC/NTSC reception card. The
>     > ATSC means it can do HDTV decoding (software only for this card)
>     and
>     > NTSC means it can do broadcast TV decoding. The "reception" part
>     > means it only works for over the air signals.
>     >Oh yeah, the HD3000 can recieve Cable/QAM signals, too!
>
>     wassa QAM?? I'm out here in the sticks, south of Commerce, cable
>     hasn't
>     made it here and I doubt it will in my lifetime, the population
>     density in Madison County is.. well, pretty low:) 300 housing starts a
>     year! When we moved here I get DISH, we had DirecTV back in Conyers,
>     but I like this setup. I have it hooked to 2 TVs, so I can either
>     watch 2 different shows, or I can watch something and record something
>     else at the same time..
>
>     --
>     Paul Cartwright
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That's interesting. The last time that I had a tech from Charter here, 
he said that the deadline was Feb 2007, and that Charter would be 100% 
digital by EOY 2006. No more analog.