[mythtv-users] Which remote?

[Brian Wood]

On Mar 9, 2006, at 5:11 PM, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote:

> On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 18:38 -0500, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>> On 03/09/2006 06:31 PM, Steven Adeff wrote:
>>> Robert, you should be good to go. Just to make sure you understand
>>> some things though....
>>>
>>> The pcHDTV HD3000 card has no mpeg encoder on it, so its great for
>>> HDTV via QAM (read: cable lines) and ATSC (read: over the air)
>>
>> = digital broadcast, already encoded in MPEG-2.
>>
>>> , but
>>> for using an external tuner its not the best since it will use  
>>> the CPU
>>> to encode the video.
>>>
>> And can only handle standard-definition capture in this mode.
>>
>
> Thanks for the advice everyone, I am going to look into those RF
> keyboards, sounds like a great idea, I need a wireless keyboard  
> anyway.
> I'll get back to you guys here once everything is here and I get  
> the box
> setup next to my ent system. I want HD capture, that is for sure, I
> guess I can split off the OTA I have to the card directly to the HDTV
> card to do this? What do you guys recommend for the feed from the set
> top box?
>
I picked up the Gyration for $99 at the local Office Depot. It came  
with a wireless mouse which is a gyroscope type thing, if you move it  
in the open air the pointer moves,pretty cool but Myth doesn't need  
or even want a mouse.