[mythtv-users] Re: mythtv newcomer.. need help setting up live tv

Grant Edwards grante at visi.com
Wed Oct 20 17:07:13 UTC 2004


On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 12:59:32PM -0400, Christopher Flynn wrote:

> According to the Hauppauge web page, the pvr-350 is a "125
> channel cable ready TV tuner" and therefore should be able to
> record any cable signal digital or otherwise.

Nope.  

"Digitial cable" is a proprietary, encrypted MPEG transport
scheme (probably using some sort of QAM at the bottom layer).

The PVR cards have normal analog VHF/UHF/Analog-cable tuners
with NTSC/PAL video demodulators.

They'll also take S-Video or composite video input.

-- 
Grant Edwards
grante at visi.com


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