[mythtv-users] Can Myth 'tune' these 'free' converter boxes?

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Feb 5, 2009, at 12:00 PM, John Drescher wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 2:55 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>> Hi Jeff
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 11:34 AM, Jeff <junk_inbox at verizon.net> wrote:
>> <SNIP>
>>>>>>  Comcast is giving me 3 of these 'free', low-end digital  
>>>>>> converter
>>>>>> boxes. Instead of using them on TVs I was wondering whether  
>>>>>> Myth can
>>>>>> tune them and I'll used them as a digital frontend to my  
>>>>>> PVR-150's. Is
>>>>>> this possible?
>>>
>>> Yes - You would feed the S-Video and Sterio Audio outputs into  
>>> your PVR-150
>>
>> Coax actually but I get the idea.
>>>
>
> You will probably get a better picture with component inputs to the
> PVR150 instead of having to tune the 150 to channel 3

You'll probably get a terrible picture with component inputs to the  
PVR-150, but I assume you mean composite input. In any case, s-video  
would be the best you can get there. :)