[mythtv-users] Pre-sales open for HD-PVR
Phil Bridges
gravityhammer at gmail.com
Mon Apr 7 19:09:59 UTC 2008
On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 3:03 PM, jedi <jedi at mishnet.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 11:40:13AM -0600, Greg Woods wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 10:10 -0700, Yeechang Lee wrote:
> >
> > > I've ordered one to use with the channels either FireWire has trouble
> > > with (the <100 analog ones) or can't get to at all for some reason or
> > > another (A&E HD). I will continue to use FireWire for all other
> > > channels
> >
> > How will you prevent channel changes for these two "tuners" from
> > conflicting? Or do you have two STB's? I assume that you've already
> > thought about this, I'm just wondering how you are going to solve it.
>
> Isolate the two STBs so that the signal from each of the blasters
> can only go to the adjacent STB. I've done this with Tivos. I had one
> STB for live viewing and the other for recording. Both were sitting
> on top of each other. One of the STBs was enclosed in a foil wrapped
> cardboard box.
>
> Some of these IR blasters (like the MCE ones that Hauppauge ship)
> don't really need any isolation. They are proabably weak enough as is
> to avoid this problem.
>
Here's how professionals do it:
http://www.smarthome.com/97252700.html
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