[mythtv-users] $80 Air2PC cards (Rev 0.2?)

Tom Dombrosky tbdombrosky at gmail.com
Tue May 17 23:23:42 UTC 2005


On 5/17/05, Blammo <blammo.doh at gmail.com> wrote:
> Anyone seen (and bought) one of these?
> 
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=3761&item=5195966400&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW
> 
> I'm curious if anyone has one working in a myth box? I'm a little wary
> given the verbage about "updated tuners"...
> 
> I need another tuner with all the finale's coming, and $80 is cheaper
> than a single PVR-250 or PVR-500.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> QUOTE:
> This Air2PC-ATSC-PCI card, one the first ever created for PC-based
> reception of off-air ATSC signals, was designed by B2C2, and was
> manufactured in 2001. While this card was subsequently replaced by
> newer versions with updated tuners the basic functionality has never
> changed. Recently, we obtained a limited quantity of these receivers
> that were never used and are still in there original shipping boxes.
> As such we are selling these receiver cards at a deeply discounted
> price. The list price of the newer version of the card is $169.95. The
> primary difference between this card and the newer version is related
> to tuner sensitivity and multipath handling however it is our
> experience in the vast majority of locations this has proven not to be
> a significant issue. A directional UHF Antenna (not included) is
> required to receive the signal.
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If it's the same one as this one:

http://www.cyberestore.com/product_info.php?cPath=34&products_id=103

then I got it working in my Myth setup.  Some people have had problems
with the QAM tuning, but I fortunately haven't.

Tom


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