[mythtv-users] The Death of MythTV in the US?

[John Drescher]

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 3:52 PM, Eric Mesa <ericsbinaryworld at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've been doing a lot of reading and research with respect to current cable
> trends in the US as well as reading the MythTV lists daily and some of the
> archives.  First of all, I don't understand the point of QAM cards.
> Everyone on this list seems to always say that all they get are the local
> channels in HD.  Can it be that Hauppauge and all those companies are
> including QAM tuners just for that?  It would seem that, where available, it
> would be much better to just use ATSC.  You're going to get all the local
> channels PLUS subbands and it won't be compressed so the picture quality
> will be better.
>
But then you would need an antenna. I get the local channel subbands
unencrypted with comcast. I am not sure if the compression factor is
more with these over ATSC or not. Either way the ATSC/QAM/NTSC card
was like $40 so it was worth it to me to just get the 10 to 15
channels I get with it. Although I wish the digital music worked with
it. I pick up the digital music on my HD tv without a box.

John