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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I’m new to the mailing list and don’t yet have
MythTV, or even a tuner card. (Well, I think I have an old Miro DC10 in
storage somewhere…)</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I want to set up a back-end that records at least 4 channels
at once. I receive TV over ComCast “basic starter” cable,
which I believe is NTSC in my area (my cable subscription is <$16/month, the
most basic digital package costs about $60/month…)</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Ideally I’d get something like two Hauppauge HVR-2250,
but since analog isn’t supported under Linux… I looked at the old
PVR-500 cards, but have seen a number of comments about issues with reception
quality. Same with the pcHDTV HD-5500. My vision is getting blurry
trying to read through all of the info on all of the possible cards to try to
find what I want… and it’s sometimes hard to tell whether the Wiki
info is up to date or not.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Any recommendations for a 4-tuner system to capture cable
analog NTSC over cable?</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Should I just get 4 PVR-150 cards and make sure I have a
system with enough PCI slots? (If so, does it matter whether
they’re MCE or not, or a mix, given that this is for a back end?)</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I have a P4-2GHz in an ASUS P4T533-C motherboard (5 PCI
slots), but I’m not sure how well it would work as a back-end for
recording 4 channels at once… I can buy a new CPU/motherboard/RAM if
that’s what it takes.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Thanks!</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Bryan</span></font></p>
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