[ale] Mythtv Build-In
Scott Castaline
hscast at charter.net
Thu Mar 16 11:14:36 EST 2006
H P Ladds wrote:
> Hey Paul,
>
> Good news for you. Last month the Digital Television Transition and
> Public Safety Act was signed into law. It states that by Feb. 17, 2009
> all television in the US will be broadcast digitally.
>
> In short, if today you can receive any signal (however fuzzy) with an
> pair of rabbit ears, you'll very likely be able to get crystal clear
> digital reception -- for free -- sometime between now and 2/17/2009.
> All you'll need is a digital antenna. Oh! and a Mythtv box would be
> helpful.
>
>
> On 3/16/06, *Paul Cartwright* <paul_tbot at pcartwright.com
> <mailto:paul_tbot at pcartwright.com>> wrote:
>
> On Thu March 16 2006 7:34 am, Cliff Free wrote:
> > The PVR350 is Hauppauge's Personal Video Recorder PCI card with a HW
> > MPEG2 codec and an FM reciever. It works with basic cable.
>
> so, if I hooked this card into my splitter from the DISH feed, it
> would
> receive the signal? or is this just the recording piece, that needs
> the feed from the HD3000..
>
> > The
> > HD3000 is made by pcHDTV and is a PCI ATSC/NTSC reception card. The
> > ATSC means it can do HDTV decoding (software only for this card)
> and
> > NTSC means it can do broadcast TV decoding. The "reception" part
> > means it only works for over the air signals.
> >Oh yeah, the HD3000 can recieve Cable/QAM signals, too!
>
> wassa QAM?? I'm out here in the sticks, south of Commerce, cable
> hasn't
> made it here and I doubt it will in my lifetime, the population
> density in Madison County is.. well, pretty low:) 300 housing starts a
> year! When we moved here I get DISH, we had DirecTV back in Conyers,
> but I like this setup. I have it hooked to 2 TVs, so I can either
> watch 2 different shows, or I can watch something and record something
> else at the same time..
>
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> Paul Cartwright
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That's interesting. The last time that I had a tech from Charter here,
he said that the deadline was Feb 2007, and that Charter would be 100%
digital by EOY 2006. No more analog.
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