[mythtv-users] HDHomeRun Vs. PCIe tuner card?

[Tom]

Perhaps this question has been done to death, but I'm really torn about the 
question of whether to build a Myth box with a pair of tuner cards in the 
PCIe slots, or plug it into a HDHomeRun box.

I haven't picked the motherboard or processor yet, so I'm somewhat neutral 
there. I might use a second NIC and put the HDHomeRun on its own private 
network, if that would help. Pity it has only the 100mb interface; perhaps 
there would have been some small performance gain if it were gigabit. I 
will be using the same box as a back end and front end in one box.

Does the HDHomeRun box limit me in some way? I would like to record one or 
two ATSC OTR programs at once, perhaps while playing back a prior 
recording. I have no cable or satellite. I'd be recording in SD for now, 
looking to moving to HD down the road.

 From what SiliconDust says on their website, their box does it all. Had 
that been the experience of those of you that have used it with MythTV?

Does the HDHomeRun box take commands for setting a tuner to a specific 
channel, or does one have to fool around with an infrared solution?

I kinda like the idea of being bus independent, seeing as I got an analog 
capture card some years ago (PCI) and now looking at a future where there 
aren't that many PCI bus slots in most new PCs. Maybe I should have got the 
box next to it on the shelf, the one that speaks USB. Who knows.

Anything that a PCIe card (or two) really brings to the party that I won't 
get with the HDHr?

Thanks mucho in advance for any advice.

-Tom





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