[ale] Good TV tuner card?

[Chris Kleeschulte]

That would be me mentioning that I use the HDHomeRun with a mythtv  
setup. I have been for about a year and it works great. You can also  
use it with Windows since the output is just mpeg2ts. It does QAM for  
cable tv signals and VSB-8 for over the air signals. Obviously, it  
will NOT "tune" analog signals. Analog will be extinct soon and should  
have been in Feb., thanks congress.

You can't go wrong with the HDHomerun. I did have to replace the power  
supply transformer, but the company paid for it and sent it really  
quick.


thanks,
Chris Kleeschulte

On Apr 4, 2009, at 12:31 PM, Ben Alexander wrote:

> I would suggest looking at the HDHomeRun by Silicon Dust.  I have  
> not used with MythTv but I know in another thread someone just  
> mentioned using it with MythTv.  I use mine with Windows Media  
> Center.  It has ATSC and QAM - not sure about NTSC?
>
> http://www.silicondust.com/products/hdhomerun_atsc
>
>
> On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Adam <prozaconstilts at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> As I prepare to build a MythTV rig, I find myself stuck trying to  
> decide
> what kind of TV tuner card to use.
>
> Of course, I'd like the pie in the sky solution: a card that works  
> with
> Linux and Windows, can capture NTSC and ATSC (and QAM if possible),  
> and
> all that jazz, so I'm not relegated to a single platform or signal, in
> case I decide to change things up one day.
>
> About the best I can find is the Hauppauge HVR 1600:
>
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Hauppauge_HVR-1600
>
> It's getting a good amount of development (claims the history for the
> page), and has the old PVR-150 tuner for analog, as well as an ATSC
> tuner that Hauppauge/Conexant has provided firmware for.
>
> In Windows, it pretty much just works, as good as Hauppauge's software
> has ever worked.
>
> Does anyone else have suggestions for the holy grail of TV tuners?
>
> Adam
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