[mythtv-users] I'm an HD Idiot.. Help me out

Ryan Steffes rbsteffes at gmail.com
Mon Sep 17 15:06:06 UTC 2007


> > The key word there being premium, since depending on your homes
> > location, it's likely you CAN get cheap, reliable OTA HD broadcasts.
> > Personally, I'm 15 miles away and down a hill from my cheap, reliable
> > OTA broadcasts, so I'm still trying to decide if the hassle and
> > appearance of an outdoor antenna is worth it to supplement my basic
> > cable with HD.
> >
> > Ry
>
> If you're that close an indoor antenna might be good enough.
>

It might be enough for an actual TV, but for the recordings the
streams get corrupted enough at about 60% signal strength to either
not lock at all, or glitch badly enough it'll actually crash
mythfrontend and mythtranscode when trying to handle it.

Ry


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