<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 1:39 AM, Karl Newman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:siliconfiend@gmail.com" target="_blank">siliconfiend@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Consider this a cautionary tale. I'm using a Hauppauge PVR-500 (dual tuner, analog, PCI). It's original from my first myth box (~7 years ago). About 3-4 months ago we suddenly lost the second tuner, connected to a Comcast PACE 50X DTA--everything was recording as static. I assumed that given the age of the tuner card, I had bad capacitors which killed the second tuner. I haven't had time to open up the system to take a close look at the card, but fortunately with it being summer, we haven't had many conflicts now that I was down to one tuner. Well, tonight I finally got some time to look into it, and one of the first things I noticed once I started poking around was that the green power LED on the DTA was not lit. I did some swapping with the DTA from the bedroom and finally discovered the power supply on the DTA had gone bad (doh!). So, I'm back to 2 tuners again, just in time for the fall TV season. Woo!<br>
<br>Now to see if Comcast still has any power supplies for that DTA any more...<span class=""><font color="#888888"><br><br></font></span></div><span class=""><font color="#888888"></font></span><br></div></blockquote><div>
<br></div><div>I am still using a PVR500 that is also a good 7 years old - I have not had to replace the capacitors yet. Like you I am recording from a Comcast DTA with the PVR500. Although a month or two ago I finally got a cable card for my HDHR Prime (that I had for a year and was using for unencrypted only) so with that the PVR500 is only recording for the wife in a redundant role (the HDHR prime records the same show at the same time).<br>
<br></div><div>John<br> </div></div></div></div>