[mythtv-users] pcHDTV card

[Keith C]

The "HDTV Antenna" from Radioshack is generally considered to be a pile
of crap.  The one I'm talking about is the disk thing with the bipolar
things sticking out of it.  If it works for you, great, but the plain
vanilla antennas are usually better bang for the buck.  HD is just UHF
(and sometimes VHF), so its not like it requires a special antenna.

Keith C

On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 16:02, Jason Schloer wrote:
> Just to chime in I just got mine yesterday too. Finally got it working
> this morning. The audio is muxed into transport, so no worries there.
> The audio cable is definitely just for analog ntsc signals. I spent an
> extra tw hours at lunch today trying to get a roof mount up and running.
> After all that time I ended up giving up and when I brought the radio
> shack brand HDTV roof antenna down to the ground ended up getting pretty
> darn good reception. I'm in kind of a valley not too far from D.C. I'm
> definitely getting CBS great, but struggling on some others. Good luck
> on yours. I got just about as good a signal for an indoor antenna. I
> think it may be that I'm too close to the power lines at my house.
> Anyway, I've managed to get a few ts streams and am working on setting
> up myth now. Keep us all informed of your experiences and I'll do the
> same. LAter
> 
> 
> Jason Schloer
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Jarod C. Wilson
> Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 4:35 PM
> To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> Subject: [mythtv-users] pcHDTV card
> 
> For those that have asked me about my pcHDTV card... It arrived 
> yesterday afternoon, but as I suspected, my reception is so bad that I 
> can only get a few very fuzzy analog signals and not a whiff of HD. I'm 
> off to see about a roof-mount antenna right now... I'm looking at 
> probably a mid-range Terk or Channel Master and a pre-amp...
> 
> First impressions though: the installation is pretty easy, the included 
> audio jumper is very nice (all internal, goes from the card to an aux 
> CD-ROM-like input on my sound card; note that I believe this is only 
> for analog signals, as HDTV signals should have the audio muxed into 
> the transport stream). Directions are included for setting up under Red 
> Hat 7.2 - 9 and Debian. I was unable to compile the driver against the 
> latest ATrpms kernel source (this is due to recent changes in the v4l2 
> api, I believe), but had no problems compiling against stock Red Hat 
> 2.4.20-20.9 source.
> 
> --Jarod