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<p class=MsoNormal>On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 6:09 AM, The GUIGuy <<a
href="mailto:linux@finalfiler.com">linux@finalfiler.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Phil Wild wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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I purchased a unit from JB HiFi on Wednesday. The sticker price was<br>
$299 but I asked the sales assistant if he could do better and he gave<br>
it to me for $250.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Phil (and others),<br>
<br>
Can you enlighten me about HDHomerun because I'm obviously missing something.
To me it seems to be just another box that requires more cabling when I can
achieve the same end inside a PC case?<br>
<br>
TIA<o:p></o:p></p>
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Four advantages:<br>
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1. It's outside your case (and not a usb dongle right next to a case) and thus
gets less interference<br>
<br>
2. It allows for physical seperation of "parts" of the backend.
It's networked, small, and has an IR receiver. A lot of people only have
1 antenna run (for a house with an external antenna) at their main TV. So
you plug this in next to the TV to do receiving of IR and antenna while your
big myth box is in a closet somewhere.<br>
<br>
3. It's networked in the same way a printer is. ANYONE on the network can
use it as long as it's idle, and idle status can be queried. That means
that you can have a windows laptop and use VLC to watch TV on it while myth
isn't recording. Since it has 2 tuners this can be useful.<br>
<br>
4. It allows you to go a modular design instead of the "huge server box
with 5 pci slots and tons of internal hard drives". With the dvb-t
hdhomerun, a mac mini, and 2-3 firewire drives you cold have a REALLY nice
"super backend" which is fast enough, but also tiny and draws almost
no power, without worrying about which USB tuner works and doesn't and may or
may not be sensitive enough. <br>
<br>
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font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The rev 2 box is very good at
automatically attenuating the signal. I added an extra amplifier to improve
reception on a few channels. The ones that were already 100% kept right on
going without saturating.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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