[TriLUG] MythTV box recommendations?

[Charles Mangin]

thanks Magnus! this helps me figure out what i need to ask TWC for.  
i'll just need to double-check with them, presuming i can find someone  
competent to talk with over there, that the channels i actually watch  
are "in the clear".


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On Feb 8, 2010, at 11:28 PM, Magnus wrote:

> I've done MythTV off & on as my spare hardware allows.  Right now my  
> Myth infrastructure is down.
>
> I never did like the quality of the picture from analog capture  
> cards. However, the digital capture devices like the HDHomeRun  
> delivered beautiful picture quality.
>
> You'll get a much better recording of local channels with a half  
> decent over the air antenna. Time Warner is recompressing the local  
> channels and they look awful in comparison.
>
> Other than the local channels, pretty much all of the digital  
> channels on Time-Warner were encrypted QAM last time I checked. You  
> can get a "HD firewire tuner" (just a set top box with one tuner, no  
> PVR functions) from T-W which will decrypt the channels & send them  
> over a firewire port as MPEG2. Some channels like ESPN & HBO, etc  
> are going to  be blacked out but a lot of the other standard cable  
> channels should work just fine.
>
> With the current version of MythTV, you can use a dual core Intel  
> Atom based system board with nVidia ION chipset. This is a killer  
> combination for a front end box. See http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/ 
> VDPAU for more on how this works.
>
>
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