I've been lurking, reading the archives for a month or two now, and I'm finally ready to start building my HD Myth box. Right now, I am attempting to choose the HD tuner card I will use.
My current setup is a Zenith c32v37 HDTV with an integrated ATSC (and QAM) tuner. I just put a ChannelMaster 4228 in the attic, and my OTA reception is now pretty good but I have large signal fluctuations on some stations at times. The signal meter seems to jump from 90% to 30% and back in a few seconds on the problem station. I think this is a classic symptom of multipath, and I've heard that the tuner you are using can really make a large difference in working around multipath to give you a stable signal. Since the Zenith is "old" (label on the back says it was made in fall 2003), I'm hoping that the tuner in one of the HDTV tuner cards might be better. In other threads, I've heard things like the air2pc pulled in stations that the pcHDTV-3000 did not. But were those weak signals stable? Which does better for reasonably strong stations with multipath? How about the DVICO cards? Another newbie question is: Do all the HDTV tuner cards dump a full mpeg2 stream (including audio), or do some of them require a connection to a sound card to capture audio? Thank you! Drew
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