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On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 03:43:52PM -0500, forgottenwizard wrote: |
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> On 08:31 Fri 28 Sep , Patrick May wrote: |
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> > I missed this thread earlier, so pardon me commenting to the OP so far down |
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> > the thread. |
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> > > > > On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 01:00:33 -0500, forgottenwizard wrote: |
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> > > > > > BTW, if anyone knows of a cheap tuner card (<50US preferably) that |
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> > > > > > is decent and works with either PCI/USB/AGP, I would love to know. |
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> > I'm currently using an air2pc card I picked up on eBay. I believe I paid |
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> > around $20-30US. It pulls in all OTA ATSC signals just fine. I can't speak for |
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> > it's abilities to work with QAM (Cable.) I'm controlling it with MythTV. |
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> > |
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> > Though I do recommend a decent processor. I used to run an Athlon 850MHz and |
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> > it could not keep up with an HD (1080i, etc) signal. It will dump the stream |
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> > to disk, just not display it (slow, pauses, etc.) |
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> > |
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> > Patrick |
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> I'm doing some looking and think I'm going to blow my budget and get a |
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> Haup. PVR-150, which I know is supported. |
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> Thanks for all of your help everyone. |
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If you are planning to watch over the air (not cable) remember that analog |
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will go off air on Feb 17, 2009. A little less than 17 months from now. |
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Patrick |
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