David George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > signals would fluctuate again. So I put an Air2PC in a slave backend > and tried with those. And without moving the antennas, the signal on > the Air2PC is much better. I'm not sure you can directly compare signal
Thank you.. That is just the sort of info I was looking for. I've ordered an Air2PC. > I do second what others have said though. The antenna will work much > better outside. I read a study once on just how bad multipath with 8VSB > is. Anything you can do to improve what the antenna "sees" will > probably help greatly. Yes, I'll move it outside if I have to. But I live in the southeastern US, where we have almost daily thunderstorms during some summer months, and I have a great fear of lightning. This is pushing me away from an outdoor antenna. Not to mention that I don't want to throw-away the effort I went through in the crawlspace and attic to run the wire between my living room and my attic ;) > >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? > > > > > The audio is in the MPEG2 stream. None of the supported HDTV cards > require a connection to the sound card. However, the HD-2000 and > HD-3000 have an NTSC section which can use a connection to a sound > card. The HD-3000 even has video/audio inputs on the card for capturing > from an STB which neither the HD-2000 nor the Air2PC has. Frankly I > don't care about this, because it isn't MPEG2. I would rather capture > those into a PVR-250 or something, mostly because it uses less system CPU. Again, excellent info. That is what I *thought*, but I never saw it written down anywhere. Thank you for your wonderful reply, Drew
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