[mythtv-users] HD Homerun questions

[Mark Knecht]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 1:06 PM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com> wrote:
>>
> Bay Area, meaning SF?  I've heard the cableco around there is fairly
> liberal with clearqam, of course Silicon Dust maintains a list of the
> available ATSC and QAM channels on their site, searchable by zip code.

Yes, South Bay, a bit outside of the San Jose area.

That list is where I got the 30% hit rate I think I might make with
the HDHR. We all record a lot of cable channels - FX, Comedy Central,
SciFi, etc., that I am guess aren't likely to show up unencrypted, or
at least that's my guess.

> Now for retaining multiple copies of a recording, there has been talk of
> doing that, as well as having the backend transcode on-the-fly, but
> nothing has ever come out of it.  Any single recording is not going to
> be more than 19mbps, and usually average closer to 16mbps, so while the
> HDHR can possibly push 76mbps, having a wired backend could be
> sufficient to alleviate your wireless bandwidth issues.

I wasn't so much wondering about the network bandwidth side, although
that's an issue also. It was more that I have a couple of analog SD
TV's with Pundit-R frontends which are required to use an older ATI
proprietary driver so that I can get output on S-Video. I'm not sure
how they might react if I throw HD material at them and then ask them
to do anything with it on the fly. They are not very powerful machines
and the fan already runs pretty loud after 10 minutes of doing SD
material. Seems like HD could be too much.

Again, I likely just get the HDHR and see how it works out.

Thanks,
Mark