Today I took another step on my HDTV path when my HD HomeRun arrived.<br><br>Setup was painless, no issues at all. Even installing the VDPAU patches on the frontend went smoothly.<br><br>Now, my intended next step is to add a PCI firewire card (any recommendations?) to my backend, then swap one of my two SD digital cable boxes for an HD one. I want this for channel changing, capturing whatever I can and then use one of my PVR-250s to capture the rest until I get a HDPVR.<br>
<br>As I was setting up schedules direct for the HDHR, I noticed I can't select the cable providers I currently have already again. This isn't a problem for the HDHR as I could use the OTA lineup, but it did raise questions for my next step ...<br>
<br>I think I will require my current line-ups with HD channels removed for the SD box I am keeping and the PVR-250 capture of the HD box, but I will also need another cable line-up with whatever I can capture over firewire on it. Is the only way to do this to create a second schedules direct account?<br>
<br>On a different issue, I would like to get 5.1 sound to my receiver. My receiver can accept optical digitial, coaxial digital or 6 channel direct input. I would need either a low-profile PCI card or a USB device. Any suggestions?<br>