[mythtv-users] Pre-sales open for HD-PVR

[Phil Bridges]

On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 3:03 PM, jedi <jedi at mishnet.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 11:40:13AM -0600, Greg Woods wrote:
>  >
>  > On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 10:10 -0700, Yeechang Lee wrote:
>  >
>  > > I've ordered one to use with the channels either FireWire has trouble
>  > > with (the <100 analog ones) or can't get to at all for some reason or
>  > > another (A&E HD). I will continue to use FireWire for all other
>  > > channels
>  >
>  > How will you prevent channel changes for these two "tuners" from
>  > conflicting? Or do you have two STB's?  I assume that you've already
>  > thought about this, I'm just wondering how you are going to solve it.
>
>     Isolate the two STBs so that the signal from each of the blasters
>  can only go to the adjacent STB. I've done this with Tivos. I had one
>  STB for live viewing and the other for recording. Both were sitting
>  on top of each other. One of the STBs was enclosed in a foil wrapped
>  cardboard box.
>
>     Some of these IR blasters (like the MCE ones that Hauppauge ship)
>  don't really need any isolation. They are proabably weak enough as is
>  to avoid this problem.
>

Here's how professionals do it:

http://www.smarthome.com/97252700.html