[mythtv-users] Is there an analog/HD tuner out there?
Calvin Harrigan
charriglists at bellsouth.net
Thu Jan 18 21:27:31 UTC 2007
Fred Squires wrote:
> On 1/18/07, *Nick Morrott* <knowledgejunkie at gmail.com
> <mailto:knowledgejunkie at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> On 18/01/07, Steve <mythtv at birniefamily.net
> <mailto:mythtv at birniefamily.net>> wrote:
> > I was pretty excited about the HD HomeRun when I first started
> looking
> > into tuners. I think it's a great product, but the one thing I
> didn't
> > realize until after I bought one was that it only does HD
> channels, not
> > analog.
> >
> > Since my plan was to keep my cable service and use MythTV as a
> possible
> > replacement for my DVR, that leaves 90% or more of the channels
> unavailable.
> >
> > Are there tuners that handle both HD and analog?
>
> THE pcHDTV HD-5500 (and the earlier HD-3000 version also I think) card
> does - it has an HDTV-capable tuner and also S-Video and audio inputs
> for analogue capture. pcHDVT is also a very Linux-friendly company.
>
>
> Just to point out, pcHDTV analog tuners are software tuners, meaning
> that your cpu has to do all the encoding. Also, I've heard the quality
> isn't as good on these as on the hardware encoders such as the Hauppauge
> PVR-150, and it's always good to have a second tuner.
>
> --
> It was supposed to be so Easy.
>
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What would really be awesome would be something like a HDHR2
(fictitious...) that does HDTV/Analog reception, has svideo input and
then streams mpeg2 for everything. To top it off it would also have a
cable card slot.
Man talk about being ridiculously useful. Ah... Just though of another
feature, it could be able to stream from all 3 aforementioned sources
simultaneously. I'd let that feature slide though if the others worked.
I'd even let the cable card slot slide. :-)
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