[mythtv-users] Is there an analog/HD tuner out there?

[Jake Palmer]

>From: Calvin Harrigan <charriglists at bellsouth.net>
>
>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.

The Kworld ATSC-110 also does both analog and digital.  It's fully supported 
in Linux and the dual analog/digital is now supported in SVN.  But like the 
pcHDTV cards stated above, the analog tuner uses software encoding.

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