[mythtv-users] USA recommendations for Digital Over the Air Capture Card

[Kevin Kuphal]

On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 2:20 PM, Eric Mesa <ericsbinaryworld at gmail.com>wrote:

> I'm thinking of giving Comcast the old heave-ho.  Most of the TV I have
> time to watch nowadays is Network Tv.  The only TV shows I watch on Cable
> are The Daily Show, Colbert Report, and (the wife watches) South Park.  The
> first two are available on Hulu, so if I can watch them by setting the
> browser in Myth to Firefox, then I'm fine.  South Park is also available
> streaming elsewhere.
>
> So, that taken care of, I was curious what recommendations other USA OTA
> myth users have.  I've been happy with my Hauppage 500 and I'd like to get
> something equivalent if it exists.  I've done some research on the MythTV
> wiki.  It appears, from the way that the wiki is written that the 2250 is
> the only Hauppage card that has 2 ATSC tuners.  All the other cards appear
> to have 1 ATSC and 1 NTSC tuner.  I'd really like to be able to record 2
> shows at once OTA.
>
> Also, I've noticed that it appears that ATSC cards don't have hardware
> encoding.  Is this because of something inherent in the way that ATSC is
> transmitted?  Is it already encoded or something like that?  I mean, I think
> I've read that ATSC is MPEG-2, but I thought cable was as well.  So is this
> something I should watch out for?  My CPU is only a P4 since I've had
> hardware encoding on the PVR-500.
>
> Also, it was a real PITA to get the PVR-500 seated in my shuttle-like
> case.  So if there's one that you guys recommend that has two onboard
> tuners, but is not as long, that would be AWESOME.  I don't think, if I
> remember correctly, that the height was an issue with this case, I think it
> was the length.
>
> One last bit of tidbit for those giving recommendations - I only have one
> PCI slot and it's PCI 1x - or whatever it is the PVR-500 uses.


HDHomeRun for PCI-less
AverMedia A180 for PCI

Kevin
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