[ale] Good TV tuner card?

[Adam Allred]

I have been swayed. The HDHomeRun is one its way to me from the California.

Time to bust out my bash script that grabs the tracking info every hour and
e-mails it to me...

On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Chris Kleeschulte <
chris.kleeschulte at it.libertydistribution.com> 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> 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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