[mythtv-users] Re: Wits end

Bruce Markey bjm at lvcm.com
Fri Dec 30 17:50:41 EST 2005


Rodney D. Myers wrote:
...
>> First, establish if there is an over the air channel in your area
>> for three or four. Unless you are midway between metropolitan areas,
>> there will normally be one or the other and not both. Set the output
>> of the external box to the unused channel. I'll assume you've gotten
>> this right but if there is a local channel 3, switch the box to 4.
> 
> I live in a rural Southern California area, and behind a hill, so
> over-the-air is not an option :-(

You've mis-understood. You are trying to select an tuner frequency
that is least likely to have RF interference from over-the-air
broadcasts. Behind a hill is good. Turn on a TV and flip to
3 then 4 and choose the one that has the least image from a far
off station. If one of them is pure snow, that's perfect.

This isn't a problem for s-video or composite as the signal is
not modulated to a frequency so it won't suffer from broadcast
interference. This is one of the reasons you will be better off
with something other than coax from the box to the capture card.

--  bjm


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