[mythtv-users] Is anyone using the Ceton PCIe quad?

Tom Bongiorno two.bits.11 at gmail.com
Mon Sep 16 21:14:41 UTC 2013


On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 4:39 PM, Eric Sharkey <eric at lisaneric.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 12:27 PM, Jay Ashworth <jra at baylink.com> wrote:
> > Does it work? How does it work?
> >
> > It is a measurably worse approach than the Ethernet tuners?
> >
> > I'm on Bright House St Pete, which I believe is 256-QUAM, with the
> channels
> > I care about in the clear.
>
> If all the channels you care about are in the clear, you can get a
> tuner which doesn't support decryption at lower cost than a cable card
> tuner.  It saves not only the cost of the tuner itself, but also the
> rental fee for the cable card.
>
> The only advantage to the cable card is that it doesn't require
> mapping the channels the way a clear-QAM tuner does, so it's somewhat
> easier to set up and maintain.
>
> Eric
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Does anything exist in the clear anymore or long term?  Often the first
CableCard is included at no additional charge with a cable subscription.  I
found the clear-QAM channel scanning process to be quite cumbersome.  It
was always a long scan and a tedious hunt to identify each channel since
they were not automatically resolved.  This process was repeated any time
Comcast decided to change up its channel frequency map.

I found setting up the Ceton PCIe tuner to be by far the easiest tuner that
I have ever setup.  It was also far more reliable and required no
maintenance.

The only thing going for the QAM tuners these days is that they are cheap.

-Tom
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