[mythtv-users] DVICO Fusion HDTV 5 Lite vs HD3000

Steve Adeff adeffs at gmail.com
Fri Jan 13 18:43:33 UTC 2006


On Friday 13 January 2006 13:10, Brandon Beattie wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 09:57:15AM -0800, John Lundell wrote:
> > I have both cards and the DVICO receiver performs much better.  The
> > HD3000 would not lock or would occasionally lose lock on many of my local
> > stations.  The DVICO only loses lock under very bad weather conditions.
> >
> > Another thing, for awhile I had both in my Myth box at the same time, I
> > was using the HD3000 as a second, lower priority tuner but when connected
> > to the same antenna, they would interfer which each other and I believe I
> > got a bit of a ground loop since the DVICO card would get warm.  I
> > finally replaced the HD3000 with a second DVICO Fusion 5 lite and it has
> > been working great.
>
> Just curious, did you swap the cables to the cards?  I've seen cable
> splitters favor one output by as much as 20%.  I haven't heard of any
> reports of interence between any models of air2pc and pcHDTV cards.
> I've not tried the fusion cards though.  I have 4 HD-3000's in one box
> right now, and know others who have run the air2pc's and pcHDTV cards
> fine.  I doubt it's the HD-3000's as they've been around for some time
> and have a very good track record, whereas the fusion are new and less
> tested.
>
> --Brandon

if your not using a signal amp before the cards, definitely try to make sure 
the splitter you have is of high quality and the lengths and make of cables 
from the splitter to the cards are all the same.

-- 
Steve


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