[mythtv-users] First Stab at a Shopping List

[Jarod Wilson]

On Friday 13 April 2007 16:53:05 R. G. Newbury wrote:
> There is no effective difference between the single tuner on a 150 and
> the 2 tuners in a 500, so in one sense getting the 500 doubles the tuner
> count for only one slot.

Indeed.

> But in building a new box, other considerations can come into play. You
> really have to know how the content is being delivered.
> Cable providers are not *required* to change from analog delivery when
> the broadcast world goes digital.

I've actually heard that here in the US, it'll be a government-mandated thing, 
and cable providers can't do analog anymore after like 2009 or something like 
that.

> I have a PV R500, an HD3000 and an HDHomeRun... for 5 tuners...but I
> don't think the HD3000 has been reached at all since the HDHR pair went
> on-line.

Almost identical to my production setup --  a PVR-500, an AirStar HD-5000 and 
an HDHomeRun. The HD-5000 is the first card, HDHR is two and three, then the 
PVR-500.

> And I get Rogers Cable in Ontario, so I have NO idea what will 
> happen to channels here...I do notice that lots of digital channels have
> exactly the same xlmtvid as their analog counterparts, although at
> present I can get only the analog versions, the others being encrypted
> at present...I suspect that that will change.

I hope so. I can't pick up any SDTV channels that I care to record (sci-fi, 
comedy central, cartoon network, etc) in digital form right now, only the 
analog, thus the continued reliance on the PVR-500. Verizon's FiOS TV service 
has already axed all analog transmissions. Certainly would be curious to see 
if I could get the digital versions of those channels with Verizon. If I 
could, goodbye PVR-500 and Comcast... :)

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com