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

[Tom]

At 03:05 PM 8/13/2009 -0400, you wrote:
>On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 21:31:43 -0600, Jarom McDonald <jlmcdonald at gmail.com>
>wrote:
> >>
> >> > 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?
> >>
> >> Yes, it takes commands for tuning channels over the Ethernet port, no
> >> messing with IR for tuning.  It has a built in IR receiver, I think.
> >> I have never used it and don't know if it can be used by Myth.
> >>
> >
> > This is actually another benefit that the HDHR has over a PCIe card --
> > especially considering that you're running a combined FE/BE. With any PCIe
> > card doing your recording on a box that's also your FE, you'll have to have
> > a separate device to run the frontend interface, whether that be a serial,
> > PCI/e, or USB infrared receiver. But with the HDHR sitting on your network,
> > if you set it physically in a place where it can receive your remote 
> control
> > input then you can configure your frontend's lirc to listen for UDP data.
> > I've got my HDHR on a little shelf of my entertainment center and can thus
> > put my combined FE/BE back behind the entertainment center, away from the
> > kids, pets, etc.
> >
> > Jarom
>
>If your HDHR tuner is in a place where you can conveniently use it to
>recieve IR signals, you aren't using it to its full potential.  Mine is
>tucked away in the laundry room with the rest of my networking stuff.  One
>of the great advantages of the HDHR is you don't have to run antenna cables
>to your TV.

Um, most of us who are replacing old-school technology (VCRs, DVD 
recorders, old DVRs, other stuff) with a Myth FE or FE/BE **already have** 
coax (antenna, cable, or sat) right there at the TV/EC. I also have voice 
(for my old Replay) and Ethernet x2.

Wouldn't most folks, except maybe new construction, have that? Even new 
construction, you'd be missing a coax run to the EC only if you knew you 
were going to do Myth and only Myth, and only in a configuration as you 
describe.

Just one man's 0.015 euro.

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