[mythtv-users] Using the PVR350 tuner.

[Darren Hart]

On Sat, 2004-06-05 at 10:12, Don Brown wrote:
> I'm a linux and myth noobie, but I'm starting to get the hang of this myth
> stuff.
> 
> I have a PVR350, hooked up to a cable box via coax connector, on a PC i'm
> using for both front and back-end processing.
> 
> I would like to cut out the cable box and simply use the tuner in the
> PVR350.  Is this possible?  Is this desirable?  An I poking myself in the
> eye for future expanability?

>From what you've said it sounds like you have analog cable, the pvr350
can tune that just fine.  I run a pvr350 and connect it directly to
Comcast cable.  Try removing the box and see what happens.  Note that
you are not limiting future expandability since if you want directTV or
digital cable later, you simply plug the pvr350 into those instead and
buy/build an IR tranceiver and configure myth to send change channel
commands to the corresponding cable-box.

--Darren

> 
> I normally run my non-myth setup without it - I simply hook up the incoming
> cable to tbe back of the VCR and use the VCR's tuner to change channels.  I
> have so pay-per-view, etc, so there is nothing encrypted.
> 
> I can get live tv if I run the signal through the cablebox and use the
> cablebox's channel changing abilites, but it's slow to change channels and I
> do not have a IR blaster right now.  If I don't need it, I'd like to avoid
> it.
> 
> Any ideas, concerns, etc.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Don
> 
> 
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