[TriLUG] MythTV and TWC (was TV Tuner Card suggestion) [may beOT]

[suamme1 at gmail.com]

I get my listings from SD and it works just fine. My QAM comes from TWC (else it'd be ATSC) and I have basic and standard, but no digital.

I think you're allowed to use an antenna regardless of what a HOA or landlord may say. I've seen the link to the law somewhere. Maybe someone else knows for sure?

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-----Original Message-----
From: "Brian Blater" <brb.lists at gmail.com>

Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 09:30:53 
To: Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion<trilug at trilug.org>
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] MythTV and TWC (was TV Tuner Card suggestion) [may be
	OT]


On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 7:55 AM, Josh Vickery <josh at vickeryj.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 9:40 PM, Reginald Reed <reginald.reed at gmail.com> wrote:
>> OK sweet!   I had no idea they had moved that much over, I was using 3
>> tuners total, 2 HD QAM from the HDHomeRun and an analog NSTC USB
>> tuner.  I'm rescanning now to see if I can dump the USB tuner
>> altogether.
>>
>> Thanks!
>
> If you have Timer Warner Durham, I find this list to be wonderfully helpful:
>
> http://home1.gte.net/res18h39/channels.htm
>
> as Time Warner seems to like to change their channel assignments.
>
> In fact, that list may be slightly out of date at the moment as I no
> longer seem to be able to tune WLFL HD at 77.1. Regular WLFL works
> fine though at 78.12. I did the slow painful process of trying to
> track down WLFL HD by hand, figuring I could email the site owner with
> an update, but I failed to track it down.
>
> It may be that the site is OK, but that there is a new trap on my line
> which is blocking 77.1 (C77.1:543000000:QAM_256:32+33:34:1) as it's
> the lowest frequency on the list I scan for, and the tuner doesn't see
> anything on that frequency anymore. I only suspect this because the
> above site owner has been quite vigilant in updating his or her site,
> and I did recently cancel a bunch of Time Warner services, which may
> have prompted them to mess with the traps on my line. My experience
> with traps in the past has been that they are not very exact in what
> they block/allow.

I've been following this thread since I just set aside a machine for a
Mythbuntu install and have been trying to figure out what TV card to
use. I will definitely look into the HDHomeRun as my house is already
networked and dual coax runs from a distribution center to each room.

One of the questions I have is with cable service or how to get the
QAM signals. I only have TWC basic cable at home. Are those of you
with TWC basic able to get the digital signals from the basic cable or
are you putting an OTA antenna outside to get the digital signals? I'm
not sure I can convince the wife we need to spend ~$80/mnth for cable
(plus the RR cost). Then depending on the type of OTA antenna, my HOA
will raise a stink about that.

Also, do most of you use one of the online listers like ScheduleDirect
to get your listings?

Thanks for your help and look forward to getting this up and running.

Brian
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