[mythtv] Semi-OT: Which HDTV card to buy for Myth?

[Brad Templeton]

On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 12:03:05AM -0500, Daniel Thor Kristjansson wrote:
> On Sat, 29 Jan 2005, Nate Carlson wrote:
> The pcHDTV HD-2000 has two coax inputs so you can dedicate one input to 
> NTSC and the other to ATSC, which is kind of neat. The HD-3000 only has 
> one coax input but has an SVideo input. The HD-3000 also has slightly 
> better ATSC reception than the HD-2000. I believe they are also both PCI 
> v2.2 cards, so they do not work with all motherboards. The NTSC input is 

Wow, because I have to second the comment about poor reception on the
HD-3000, at least compared to the tuner built into the TV I had.  It would
show a clear, drop-free signal when the pchdtv card was reporting something
unusably low.

One other really nifty use for the two coax inputs (which I don't have as
I have a 3000 model card) would be for two OTA antennas.  In the old
days when we had an antenna we often put up a rotor -- not very satisfying
in the days of the PVR and digital TV though one could imagine a clever
rotor control program making use of the signal strength.  So for those
with stations in two directions (many in the bay area where the NBC
transmitter is on Mt. Umanhum in San Jose and most of the others are on
Mt. Sutro and Mt. San Bruno in San Francisco), switchable inputs based on
the station you want to tune could make a lot of sense.