On Nov 30, 2007 8:37 AM, John Drescher <<a href="mailto:drescherjm@gmail.com">drescherjm@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">> Hey everyone. I currently run 2 SD DirecTV D10's with 2 PVR-150's and things<br>> have been running GREAT for the past 3+ years. Well, in the past year<br>> DirecTV has started pushing TONS of HD channels and about a year ago I
<br>> bought an HD TV so now I'm considering an HD upgrade for my MythTV server.<br>> Does anyone here use the DirecTV HD boxes with success? Also, what are some<br>> proven good HD tuners? I have the disk space as I have slowly grown my disks
<br>> in my myth server to about 1.5 usable TB (400GB for the TV, 920GB for DVD's,<br>> 40GB slash, and 50GB music) so I'm not worried in that department... I'm<br>> just hoping to order a couple of HD boxes and swap my PVR-150's. Also, I use
<br>> serial connectors to control the D-10's, what do common HD boxes use?<br>><br>> Thanks everyone!<br>><br></div></div>With satellite the only way to get HD to MythTV is through a hacked HD<br>receiver box that you can buy online for $700 to $1000. These have
<br>firewire outputs and you use that to get the HD.<br><br>John<br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a><br><a href="http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users" target="_blank">
http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a><br><br></blockquote></div><br>That's not any fun! What's the road block? Are you unable to control the HD receiver with Myth or something?<br clear="all">
<br>-- <br>Josh<br><a href="mailto:josh.zeno@gmail.com">josh.zeno@gmail.com</a>