[mythtv-users] USB DVB-T2 tuners

[Ian Oliver]

In article <55157782.2040602 at randomtraveller.org.uk>, Mike Perkins wrote:
> That's a question of taste - and how big your storage drives are. As I 
> mentioned, to me (and the others in the family) the differences between SD and 
> HD are sometimes hard to see. That may be because we tend to record mainly the 
> BBC channels with the occasional channel 4, 5 and Film4 and I think the 
> bandwidth (=quality) is good enough.

It's true that mythtv looks good even for Freeview SD, and even on our 46" TV. 
Maybe our eyes are getting old?

> HD was used for the Olympics, though.

No sport watched in our household. If I spot anything sport related in the 
channel list, it goes at the same time as the auction/sale/"speciality" ones.

> For storage, HD ~= SD * 4. An hour of HD is about 8GB, despite the better 
> encoding algorithm. I have 1TB of storage, you may have more.

I'm building the new BE with 2TB. I have two drives configured as raid 1, but I 
will have three hot swap bays free, so moving to 4TB or 6TB is easy, but does 
escalate the backup problems. (And yes, I do backup both system drives and raid 
arrays because I've enjoyed file system corruption even with good drives.)

BTW, my new backend, bristling with hot swap, USB2 and DVB-T2 tuners has been 
named "Overkill", which seems apt!