[mythtv-users] pcHDTV card

[Brian Foddy]

I've tried the Terk 55 and the Winegard 2000.  I live about
20-30 miles from the transmitter in my area, and generally
have had poor reception.  Both worked pretty well when mounted
in the atic of my garage, but the Winegard I found a bit better
and cheaper.  But not as many mounting options.


On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Jarod C. Wilson wrote:

> For those that have asked me about my pcHDTV card... It arrived 
> yesterday afternoon, but as I suspected, my reception is so bad that I 
> can only get a few very fuzzy analog signals and not a whiff of HD. I'm 
> off to see about a roof-mount antenna right now... I'm looking at 
> probably a mid-range Terk or Channel Master and a pre-amp...
> 
> First impressions though: the installation is pretty easy, the included 
> audio jumper is very nice (all internal, goes from the card to an aux 
> CD-ROM-like input on my sound card; note that I believe this is only 
> for analog signals, as HDTV signals should have the audio muxed into 
> the transport stream). Directions are included for setting up under Red 
> Hat 7.2 - 9 and Debian. I was unable to compile the driver against the 
> latest ATrpms kernel source (this is due to recent changes in the v4l2 
> api, I believe), but had no problems compiling against stock Red Hat 
> 2.4.20-20.9 source.
> 
> --Jarod
> 
>