[mythtv-users] OSD Signal Strength

[Dean Harding]

noelcollins at optusnet.com.au wrote:
> Probable 5 or more. At present we have 3 VCRs that on some nights are all recording (analog) with 1 or 2 mythboxes recording from digital. Designed the setup because of the problem of back to back schedule recording, especially when the commercial stations are "loose" with their start/end times.
> The pc's are ex work P4 2.4Ghz - just add tuner $89 / 250-500Gb HDD $100-$120 = 1 backend. Need to keep frontends from recording stream as much as possible so we use frontends to watch live digital tv. 

You really don't need that much in Australia, where we only have like 5 
or 6 channels. With multi-rec in 0.21, you can overlap back-to-back 
shows and record the SD and HD channels simultaneously on one tuner (so 
you can record shows back-to-back with overlap on both Seven and SevenHD 
with one tuner only).

1 BE with maybe two dual-tuners would be more than enough for all of that.

Anyway, this is starting to go off-topic of your original post, which I 
personally can't comment on, not being familiar with all that stuff... 
I'm lucky enough to live on top of a hill with excellent receptions for 
all channels :-)

Dean.