[mythtv-users] ATSC Capture Reccomendations

[Jon]

On Mar 12, 2008, at 9:01 AM, Richard Shaw wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 4:23 AM, Jon  
> <jon.the.wise.gdrive at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Okay, I've been moseying around the interweb looking for a new
>>  capture card. First, I went to
>>  <http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Category:HDTV_capture_cards>
>>  then, after that, I started scouring TigerDirect/Newegg/Frys
>>  (outpost.com)/BestBuy looking for cards.
>>
>>  I want something relatively cheap (cost, not quality), as I'm
>>  planning on spending under $250 to upgrade my MBE. I want to put a
>>  new HDD and an ATSC card. I would sort-of like to have a hardware SD
>>  encoder available, but that's not a deal breaker, as I've been using
>>  frame-grabbers since 0.17 without any problems (well, other than a
>>  TON of audio issues, but that's another thing)
>>
>>  Currently my system uses a couple of Hauppage BT878 cards (WinTV-Go
>>  Plus) and I really would like to phase those out when I upgrade to
>>  0.21. The hardware is an almost matched set of systems. They are  
>> both
>>  Intel 854G boards with P4 processors. One has a 2.4, and the other a
>>  2.8HT. Both have a gig of ram. I have OpenSUSE 10.3 on my second
>>  (SBE) system, and Fedora6 (about to get nuked in favor of SUSE, I
>>  think) on the MBE. I've been a RedHat user since RedHat 5.0, but  
>> have
>>  found openSUSE to be much easier to setup/configure.
>>
>>  So, that being said, what kind of cards you suggest?
>>
>>  ~Jon
>
> Well, it's not a card per say, but my HDHomerun has worked flawlessly.
> Only $169 and two tuners, plus you can locate it somewhere else on
> your network if needed (to keep antenna cable runs minimized).
>

Have you upgraded to .21 yet? How do they handle the MultiRecord?