No, the HDHR does not provide firewire. <br><br>I am weighing the HDHR against the alternative of using my STB and its firewire port. I prefer the HDHR (provided it gives me more programming than I currently get with analog SD) because it would seem to be more stable than the firewire option, and it does not tie up a STB in order to capture.
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/7/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">Kevin J. Cummings</b> <<a href="mailto:cummings@kjchome.homeip.net">cummings@kjchome.homeip.net</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;">
Larry K wrote:<br>> I have been reading the archives about HDHR, and I have a n00b<br>> question. Before I get to that, I am currently capturing SD from<br>> Comcast (channels 1-99) with PVR 250s. I have a Motorola 6412 dual
<br>> tuner STB that gives me digital cable, encrypted content (HBO, SHO,<br>> etc.), and 20-30 HD channels. My primary motivation is to make more<br>> channels available to my myth box, I don't really care all that much
<br>> about encrypted or HD content, but I'll take that as a bonus. I've been<br>> considering a firewire solution, but I've been reading about how quirky<br>> this can be, depending on the STB and the firewire card. Now, I am
<br>> reading about how HDHR might also solve this problem. So....<br>><br>> Is there a way to see what QAM channels an HDHR box could "see" before I<br>> plop down the $170? If we are talking basically the same content I get
<br>> now via analog tuners, then HDHR makes no sense. However, if most of<br>> the digital channels are on the table, then HDHR is for me. A quick<br>> check of the silicondust website<br>> <a href="http://www.silicondust.com/wiki/hdhomerun/channels">
http://www.silicondust.com/wiki/hdhomerun/channels</a> shows, for my zip<br>> code, a list of mostly digital music channels, and a few other obvious<br>> things like networks, and some HD content. Not much content beyond what
<br>> I get via analog capture, tho. Not sure how reliable this tool is since<br>> it doesn't know who my provider is.<br><br>I looked at the listings for my zip code, and while I have 2 providers<br>in town, I see both duplicate listings of channels (the same station
<br>listed on 2 different cable channel numbers) and unique channels from<br>both providers, but amazingly enough, there is little overlap between<br>the cable companies' channel numbers of the unencrypted content. For my
<br>town. YMMV. In fact, I'd be surprised if it didn't.<br><br>> When considering firewire capture from my STB, or HDHR, which makes more<br>> sense? Ignore cost as a factor.<br><br>I wasn't aware that the HDHR would give you Firewire output, but if it
<br>does, then it would seem obvious that you could receive OTA channels not<br>provided by the cable company via firewire. OTOH, your STB should be<br>able to provide you with encrypted channels over firewire when you tune
<br>the STB to it, should it not? As to which is best, they are both<br>digital, are they not? Shouldn't the quality be the same whether you<br>get it direct from your STB or you get it direct from your cable?<br>So you should base your decision on which is better by which will give
<br>you more channels that you want.<br><br>disclaimer: I do not use any firewire inputs with my MythTV setup as<br>yet. So, I may be way off base here.<br><br>that would seem to be a better solution as it can provide firewire of
<br>OTA channels if you choose to hook one antenna input to an antenna and<br>the other to your cable.<br><br><br>> Thanks<br>> Larry<br>><br>><br>><br>><br>><br>><br>><br>><br>> On 12/6/07, * jason maxwell* <
<a href="mailto:decepticon@gmail.com">decepticon@gmail.com</a><br>> <mailto:<a href="mailto:decepticon@gmail.com">decepticon@gmail.com</a>>> wrote:<br>><br>> Feel free to ignore / flame me as I'm sure I can find this
<br>> elsewhere but I'm going to be lazy - Does the HDHomerun let me<br>> tune into all the non-HD channels I would normally get via a<br>> cable ready TV? How speedy is it to cycle through the QAM
<br>> channels? My QAM channels cycle between being blank and whatever<br>> On Demand shows are being watched at the time, and checking them<br>> takes about ten seconds per channel on my Vivitek HDTV. Is the
<br>> HDHomerun faster at locking onto each channel?<br>><br>><br>> Just for the fun of it, I tried to program those phantom on-demand<br>> channels into myth. I had some trouble since they dont show up
<br>> sequentially, and not all at once. I managed to get a couple to come<br>> up in myth (didnt spend a ton of time on it), but cycling through<br>> takes forever, because if the channel is not available at the time,
<br>> you get an error after a timeout, and then you can continue.<br>> Otherwise, tuning is pretty quick. I love my HDHR, and dont plan to<br>> ever part with it.<br>> -J<br>><br>> _______________________________________________
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