[mythtv-users] USA recommendations for Digital Over the AirCapture Card
VCRAddict
MythTV_01 at appropriate-tech.net
Wed Nov 19 20:36:58 UTC 2008
At 01:56 PM 11/19/08 -0500, Steven Adeff wrote:
>
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 7:50 AM, Eric Mesa <ericsbinaryworld at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I decided to go with the HD Homerun. Ordered it last night from
> > newegg along with the Terk antenna -
[snip]
> You can possibly avoid antenna woes if your willing to pay comcast for
> their basic service (I believe it is ~$10/mo)
How do you figure? The HDHomeRun is *purely* a DTV tuner. While it will
handle both ATSC (OTA broadcast) and "Clear-QAM" (unencrypted "digital"
cable) modulations, neither of those signals are likely to be found on a
$10/mo "basic antenna service" cable drop.
> They have all
> the OTA channels on their cable line unencrypted and tuneable with any
> ATSC tuner card.
[snip]
No. ATSC does not work on cable, period.
By law the cable company may not encrypt the local broadcast stations that
they retransmit; but it's still only plain-vanilla analog NTSC if you have
"basic" service. *IF* you subscribe to their "digital" service, you should
be able to get the local broadcast stations in QAM; but that is (typically
at least) MUCH more pricey than "basic cable".
> I current have Comcast and use three ATSC cards (Two
> A180's and a HD3000) to record these channels.
Those are actually ATSC/QAM cards.
<http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/AVerTV_HD_A180>
<http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/PcHDTV_HD-3000>
and I'm betting you're paying Comcast *way* more than $10/mo.
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