[mythtv-users] DViCO FusionHDTV 5 Lite card and Cable Channel Detection

[Bob]

Daniel Kristjansson wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 07:13 -0500, jack snodgrass wrote:
>
>   
>> Does anyone know why ( if ) the DViCO FusionHDTV 5 Lite card can do
>> both SD and HD  channels at the same time. Since I see the SD and HD
>> channels on my HDTV... I'm assuming that the SD channels are on my
>> coax... 
>>     
>
> The DViCO FusionHDTV 5 Lite card has QAM/8VSB and NTSC demodulators,
> but only one tuner, so it can only handle one or the other. QAM on
> cable can of course handle both HDTV and SDTV programming, but it
> sounds like your service provider is only giving you the HDTV over
> QAM and is providing the SDTV over NTSC. This is unfortunate, but
> this is allowed by the FCC regulations at least until the OTA digital 
> switchover is complete. (The waiver may be extended past that point,
> but I'm not aware that it has been yet.)
>
> -- Daniel
>
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I have the same DVICO card.  I am able to receive SD and HD channels via 
QAM256 on that card from my provider (Cox).

You can use this card and switch between NTSC and QAM256 if necessary:

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/DViCO_FusionHDTV5_Lite

Bob