[TriLUG] Anyone built a MythTV/Freevo box lately - recommendations?

[Magnus]

Mike Shaw wrote:
> Simple - to record local channels via DVR instead of using a VCR.   Just
> because I don't get cable of satellite doesn't mean I will never record
> anything off of  the tuner.

I had myth going for awhile in Philly but scrapped it when I needed the 
hardware in an emergency to replace something more important.

I had a tuner card but it was my fallback tuner.  My digital cable box 
was my primary tuner.  Hooked it to my myth box via firewire. It worked 
great, except for some channels (most notably the HBO series of 
channels) had blacked out the video signal over firewire so it would 
only record sound there.

With an analog tuner card you're really only getting a small subset of 
the programming that is out there, and even then in relatively poor quality.

I found that many of the channels from the lower seventy-something that 
the analog tuner could see were replicated in the upper digital channels 
as well.