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

Garry Cook garrycook at gmail.com
Thu May 26 14:55:41 UTC 2005


On 5/26/05, Blammo <blammo.doh at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 5/17/05, Blammo <blammo.doh at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=3761&item=5195966400&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW
> >
> > I went ahead and bought one. I'll let ya'll know how/if it works. I
> > emailed back and forth with the vendor who agreed to take it back and
> > refund me if it doesn't co-exist peacefully with my existing setup.
> 
> Just wanted to follow this up. Vendor was extremely easy to work with,
> very knowlegable (you'll see why if you order one) and shipped one out
> the door quickyl.
> 
> . Rev1 cards have a different "frontend" (Broadcom 3510) which has
> only been supported in the last 7-ish days. Once you get it compiled
> into the kernel, everything gets happy.
> 
> Worth the money, imho.
> 
> One Caveat, if you have signal strength problems now, you may not want
> to get one of these... they are a little weaker on the RCV side than
> the Gen2 cards.
> 

Are you using it for OTA only? What about QAM encrypted cable, have
you tested that at all? If it can grab HD off cable, I might just have
to pick one up...

--Garry


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