<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/18/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Devan Lippman</b> <<a href="mailto:devan.lippman@gmail.com">devan.lippman@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
><br><br>Any feedback on how you like this card? Where are you using it, and<br>are you trying to recieve digital cable? I'd love to hear.<br><br>--<br>Thanks,<br>Devan Lippman <devan at lippman dot net><br></blockquote>
</div><br>Glad you asked; just wanted to post a feedback. I'm using it to receive the clear digital cable channels in the SF Bay Area. I have been using the pcHDTV-3000 to receive the cable HD channels. And now Comcast is rolling out the all digital simulcast, I get all the basic channels in digital too. So I wanted to get another QAM tuner card and went down the cheaper route :)
<br><br>It works quite OK. But it seems it doesn't have an as good tuner (I'm not sure exactly which chipset is responsible) as the pcHDTV-3000. I have digital channels on one frequency that the FushionHDTV5 RT Lite cannot get a good signal lock on, but pcHDTV-3000 works just fine. They are both feed by the 4-way splitter. I know it isn't ideal to use a 4-way splitter, which as a
7.4dB loss on each port. But pcHDTV-3000 is perfectly happy with the signal strength. I tried using all 4 ports for FusionHDTV5 RT Lite. Similar results. But if I connect the card directly to the wall outlet, it gets very good signal lock, too.
<br><br>Other than that, it works fine. Now I have 4 tuners (Plus 2 analog ones from PVR-500, but these two are now rarely used). And I can watch both Letterman and Leno in HD :)<br><br>DS<br><br>