[mythtv-users] Directv H21 and Mythtv
George Mari
george_mythusers at mari1938.org
Thu Mar 27 23:24:53 UTC 2008
John P Poet wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 1:15 PM, Captain Krypto <captainkrypto at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hey,
>>
>> I'm running a combined FE/BE system with 1 SD tuner card (pvr-150). I was
>> thinking about upgrading my Directv to HD and was wondering about peoples
>> experiences with this receiver and using it with MythTv. Since I don't have
>> an HD tuner at this point, I wanted to watch HD directly through the box,
>> but still be able to record SD. Is anyone running a setup like this? If I
>> have an HDMI cable plugged in, will the signal still come through the RCA or
>> Composite outputs? Any info or feedback on the H21 is appreciated.
>
> Feeding s-video from my H20 (hidef) to my pvr-150 works very well.
>
> The HD channels even look pretty good. If you set the H20 to output
> in "anamorphic" mode, and tell Myth to setup the PVR-150 to record in
> 16:9 (anamorphic), then you minimize resolution loss. Combine this
> with the new greedy or yadif deinterlacer and the result is not too
> bad. Definitely not HD, but much better than the SD version of the
> same channel.
>
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I second the quality of 16:9 anamorphic mode on the H20 - much nicer
than 4:3 SD on my old D10.
H21 is basically the same as the H20, from a MythtV/capability point of
view. I upgraded this past November, and feel it was worth it.
I'm also looking forward to the possibility of component capture at some
point in the not-too-distant future.
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