[mythtv-users] Hauppage 250 (or 500, or 150) needed

[mons37318 at mypacks.net]

-----Original Message-----
>From: Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com>
>Sent: Jan 8, 2009 8:41 PM
>To: Discussion about mythtv <mythtv-users at mythtv.org>
>Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Hauppage 250 (or 500, or 150) needed
>
>mons37318 at mypacks.net wrote:
>> my brother told me to post here.  our first tuner card is dead, apparently these aren't sold anymore (even on ebay) and the big three networks are about to hit us with Chuck vs House vs Big Bang/HIMYM on the 19th.
>>
>> we aren't ready for digital yet, he says, major overhaul needed that he doesn't have time to do - meanwhile the jack in tuner 1 is hanging off sideways.
>>
>> --
>> Pam from Boston

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>The 250s are fairly old, but the 150s can still be picked up somewhat 
>easily on fleabay.

the brother seems to think not

>
>Why can you not use digital? There is marginal system requirement for 
>recording digital TV.  Local broadcast may require an outside antenna, 
>but if you have any form of cable, you should be able to pick up the 
>local broadcast channels over QAM.  The only issue with digital TV is 
>that you need a bit more capacity for HD mpeg2, but just about any AMD64 
>or late model P4 can handle it.

i'm told there will be an update of myth and the kernel both involved which generally make me cringe (even though I''m not the one doing them)

actually, i recently mentioned that December is dead on TV and a good time to update myth. the brother kidded "i'll tell Isaac to do hus releases then" (something like that)  and i said, no , September, so the bugs can be worked out by then. (of course September would stink for early upgraders. maybe July?)
I'm sure your bugs are worked out more quickly of course - i'm just so inured to bugs and to things that don;t work as expected (I use Windows (the M$ kind)) that one day i started my car - it sounded funny, so I shut it off and started it again. (firefox thinks i've spelled inured correctly, so i'm gonna run with it)

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Pam from Boston
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