<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 7:39 AM, Misc Things <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:formisc@gmail.com">formisc@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 10:57 PM, Newbury <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:newbury@mandamus.org" target="_blank">newbury@mandamus.org</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">
<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div><br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><div></div><div><div><br>On 2010-01-31, at 14:27, Misc Things <<a href="mailto:formisc@gmail.com" target="_blank">formisc@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 1:28 PM, R. G. Newbury <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:newbury@mandamus.org" target="_blank"></a><a href="mailto:newbury@mandamus.org" target="_blank">newbury@mandamus.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>On 01/31/2010 09:31 AM, Misc Things wrote:<br>
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cable companies are just pissing me off more and<br>
more i look into this area..<br>
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Welcome to the real world. Most of us feel that way too!<div><br>
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anyway, so the key piece in your explanation is - one recording per<br>
tuner, one play back - per tuner.<br>
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Actually, one recording OR live session per tuner. Play back of recorded content is completely separate from the recording (except for live tv sessions). After a while, most of us don't watch 'live-tv' at all, except maybe for the weather. It's all recorded content.<div>
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And the box if i were to hook it up<br>
using suggested method - is a source of a single channel.<br>
lovely (sarcastically)<br>
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anyway around this ?<br>
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No. Unfortunately. The cheap answer is 'put up an antenna' which as you have seen may actually not work. It depends upon where you live. Then again, you can always move..that would be cheap!!!<div><br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br>well i'm in NYmetor ( 10miles from Manhattan), so i (foolishly) expected the reception to be at least good. but non at all? yeah... (frustrated).<br>I'll check the sites - maybe i got a bad antenna. I just picked up "HDTV/FM HD radio antenna" from radioshack by radioshack. didnot do any research - just wanted to check.<br>
<br>I read a bit around and it seems that they should allow the fireware connection. Does this help me in any form or shape ? <br></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><br></div></blockquote><br></div></div><div>
Assuming you have a reasonably direct view to Manhatton you should get a bunch of channels even with a cheap radioshack antenna. My first guess would be a setup problem. Not high enough, pointed the wrong way, wrong coax cable killing the signal, wrong input settings on the tv you were testing on... You didn't feed the antenna coax into the settopbox by mistake? Or leave the tv set for cable input?</div>
<div>I got 4 digital channels in my office, ground floor of a concrete + steel frame building with the 5 inch omni directional whip antenna which came with my HVR-950, 15 miles from the transmitter, so you should get something. </div>
<div>Please give some more details about how you tested the antenna with your tv (and how you connected it).</div><div><br></div><div>Regarding FireWire, the FCC mandates that you should have this. This list is archived at gossamer-threads. Search the list archive for 'FCC' and 'CFR' for a reference.</div>
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<br></blockquote></div><br></div></div>Antenna:<br> no direct view to Manhattan. I have a large building across the parking lot from mine to the (direct) West. And my widows are all facing West too. Here is the map i just generated. <a href="http://www.tvfool.com/?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=29&q=id%3dc723438e0d2a74" target="_blank">http://www.tvfool.com/?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=29&q=id%3dc723438e0d2a74</a><br>
If i read it right - almost all channels are broadcasting from south, south east direction. This may explain why i have nothing - the signal has to go through half of the brick building or bounce off the opposite building... <br>
Thinking again - still i should have got at least some cr%% pictures on multiple channels. I plugged the antenna in UHV input and disabled "cable" input, prior to scanning of channels, on tv. No i didn't plug it into cable box.</blockquote>
<div><br></div><div>Keep in mind that ATSC is highly directional. 1-2 degrees on the compass can mean the difference between no signal and full reception. Back when I was using ATSC, I found it easiest to kill mythbackend and use 'dtvscan' to monitor channels I knew I should receive, then slowly move the antenna until I had at least 90% signal. It's a pain to get set up correctly, but once you do, it pays off big time.</div>
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