<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 1:30 PM, James Pifer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jep@obrien-pifer.com">jep@obrien-pifer.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've been a mythtv user since the 0.14 days. I'm very happy with my<br>
setup and other than the backend server freezing once in a great while<br>
(bad memory I think) everything is super stable.<br>
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I've just recently picked up an HDTV and I'm looking at getting digital<br>
cable for this TV. Obviously you get a more channels with digital cable.<br>
I know my kids will want me to record shows for them, such as off the<br>
Military channel. My understanding is you have to use the cable<br>
company's digital set top box to get the extra channels. My cable<br>
provider is Time Warner.<br>
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So if I get digital cable, is there any way for me to record these<br>
channels with mythtv? I don't even want them in HD quality since none of<br>
my frontends can even do it.<br>
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Another option would be to use one of the cable company's DVRs. Really<br>
don't want to do that or pay extra for it. I put recorded videos in<br>
mythvideo and my kids are very used to that interface. I'm guessing it<br>
would be difficult at best to get them off the DVR.<br>
</blockquote><div><br>I'm in a similar situation having just bought an HDTV. We've made a few other large purchases recently as well, so I'm going to live with SD for a while (which still looks pretty good, and the PS3 is HD) but my plan for upgrading is as follows ...<br>
<br>The backend has 3 PCI slots, each has a PVR-250 currently. Two go to SD digital cable boxes and one uses coax. My first step will be to buy a HD HomeRun. That should let me free up the co-ax PVR-250 and remove it.<br>
<br>Next I want to put a firewire card in my now free PCI slot and replace one or both of my SD digital boxes with HD. My SD boxes are controlled via USB->serial cables, and as I doubt the HD boxes will have a serial port I'll need the firewire to at least change channels. Anything I can capture there is a bonus and I'll use the PVR-250 to capture anything else. Eventually I will replace the 250 with an HD-PVR.<br>
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