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font-size: 12px;" lang="x-western">*** Oops, sorry, I forgot to
sent this to the list! -- second try and sorry for the duplication
of messages. ***<br>
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Hi Nick,
<br>
<br>
Le 2012-10-01 16:16, Nick Rout a écrit :
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<blockquote type="cite" style="color: #000000;">On Mon, Oct 1,
2012 at 11:44 PM, Marc Paré<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
href="mailto:marc@marcpare.com"><marc@marcpare.com></a>
wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite" style="color: #000000;">Hi John, Nick et
all,
<br>
<br>
Thanks for your help.
<br>
<br>
I have put together my specs again as I had not properly put
the fact that I
<br>
would need a PCI card, and, judging from the sites I have gone
to, my
<br>
choices are limited. I have also read up a lot more about the
Rogers cable
<br>
service (our cable service), and the Rogers analog service
will stop for
<br>
everyone by December 31st 2012 -- it will be phased out region
by region. We
<br>
are still receiving analog service for now but can switch to
digital service
<br>
anytime by calling Rogers. After December 31st, all analog
users will no
<br>
longer receive any service and will be forced to get digital.
<br>
<br>
So, it looks like I should be building a PVR (or would it be a
DVR?) for
<br>
digital service.
<br>
<br>
So here are my specs again with the answer to John's
questions:
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==========================
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Location: Canada
<br>
Signal: analog soon to be digital for everyone on the service
by December
<br>
31st 2012
<br>
TVCard: presently using PowerView Card with TVTime. MythTV
does not
<br>
recognize the card. It is an analog TVCard.
<br>
MoBo: ASRock 775i65g -- 3 PCI slots (NO PCIe SLOTS
AVAILABLE)[1]
<br>
RAM: 2 gig (MoBo max)
<br>
Hardrive: SATA 1Tb
<br>
<br>
Computer OS: Mageia2 Linux (Linux kernel 3.3.8-2)
<br>
MythTV version 0.25
<br>
TVCard replacement: willing to spend up to $200Cdn
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</blockquote>
One word: HDHomerun. does not need an internal slot, so your old
MB
<br>
doesn't matter.
<br>
<br>
Not sure if a Prime helps you in Canada with Rogers, others will
know.
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</blockquote>
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I like the idea of HDHomerun, sounds really neat! I was thinking
of also just going OTA as my wife says that many of the programmes
she watches are playable from the network sites. So if enough of
her favourite channels are on there, then OTA would be a clear
option. We would save approximately $500/yr. and it would pay for
all of the hardware to make the DVR work.
<br>
<br>
Re: HDHomerun, the description is a little unclear. It says that
it turns any computer into a DVR, but I imagine that this is only
with one tuner right? It would not be possible to record 2
programmes at the same time? I was also looking at the SiliconDust
HDHomeRun Tech Dual, does this allow 2 channel simultaneous
recording? The SiliconDust works with VLC, but does MythTV work
with it?
<br>
<br>
Another question I would have if anyone knows, what would be a
good "attic antenna" to look at? We could also spend around
$250Cdn on an antenna.
<br>
<br>
All of these costs would be recovered if we went OTA instead of
Cable within one year.
<br>
<br>
The only real channel I would miss is the TSN sports channel, but
I imagine that there is an online stream somewhere. Its just that
there is a lot of Canadian content on that particular channel that
I like.
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<br>
I know these are a lot of questions, and I thank all of you for
the great help! It is much appreciated.
<br>
<br>
Cheers,
<br>
<br>
Marc
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