[mythtv-users] digital tv card?

[Timothy Waters]

So, I should just hook my coax cable output on the set top box to the input
of my PVR-250MCE? The only thing is that I will probably get another card
because that one does not have a remote control capability. Would you
recommend a pvr-350 or pvr-500 or anything else? TV-out would be nice too
;-)

On 7/10/06, Joe Votour <joevph at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
> --- Timothy Waters <timothy.waters at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > What is a good tv card able to handle digital cable?
> > I've got 350+ channels
> > and I would like to record some stuff  ;-)
> >
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> > all doubt." - Abraham Lincoln
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> The best "card" is the set-top box that comes with
> your digital cable, fed into a PVR-x50 card, being
> controlled by an IRBlaster (or serial port).
> Alternatively, the set-top box that comes with your
> digital cable, using Firewire.  (By now, Firewire
> capture may be better than S-Video in, I'm not sure -
> Firewire is the only way you'll get HD, but I've done
> neither of these methods, so I can't really comment on
> that.)
>
> I say this because most of those channels that you get
> will be encrypted, and to decrypt them, you need the
> set-top box/PVR that your cable company gave you.  For
> the unencrypted channels, if they are broadcast on QAM
> as MPEG-2, you can use a QAM-capable card (many of the
> ATSC cards are QAM capable now).
>
> -- Joe
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Timothy Waters
timothy.waters at gmail.com
http://www.e-Waters.org
205-587-9001

"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove
all doubt." - Abraham Lincoln

"It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of
man." Albert Einstein(1946)
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