<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 2:20 PM, Eric Mesa <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ericsbinaryworld@gmail.com">ericsbinaryworld@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I'm thinking of giving Comcast the old heave-ho. Most of the TV I have time to watch nowadays is Network Tv. The only TV shows I watch on Cable are The Daily Show, Colbert Report, and (the wife watches) South Park. The first two are available on Hulu, so if I can watch them by setting the browser in Myth to Firefox, then I'm fine. South Park is also available streaming elsewhere. <br>
<br>So, that taken care of, I was curious what recommendations other USA OTA myth users have. I've been happy with my Hauppage 500 and I'd like to get something equivalent if it exists. I've done some research on the MythTV wiki. It appears, from the way that the wiki is written that the 2250 is the only Hauppage card that has 2 ATSC tuners. All the other cards appear to have 1 ATSC and 1 NTSC tuner. I'd really like to be able to record 2 shows at once OTA. <br>
<br>Also, I've noticed that it appears that ATSC cards don't have hardware encoding. Is this because of something inherent in the way that ATSC is transmitted? Is it already encoded or something like that? I mean, I think I've read that ATSC is MPEG-2, but I thought cable was as well. So is this something I should watch out for? My CPU is only a P4 since I've had hardware encoding on the PVR-500.<br>
<br>Also, it was a real PITA to get the PVR-500 seated in my shuttle-like case. So if there's one that you guys recommend that has two onboard tuners, but is not as long, that would be AWESOME. I don't think, if I remember correctly, that the height was an issue with this case, I think it was the length. <br>
<br>One last bit of tidbit for those giving recommendations - I only have one PCI slot and it's PCI 1x - or whatever it is the PVR-500 uses.</blockquote><div><br>HDHomeRun for PCI-less<br>AverMedia A180 for PCI<br><br>
Kevin</div></div><br>