On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, Preston Crow wrote:
So if you're living in the USA, and you want to capture broadcast digital video, you need an ATSC tuner card. If it supports ATSC, it's what you want. Well, if you want to use it with MythTV, then you need Linux drivers that MythTV supports. So you want the HD-3000 or the Air2PC card.
Thanks, that helps a bit. So a Air2PC, already ordered, will allow me to receive local OTA HDTV transmitions. If you take a look at http://www.lyngsat.com/freetv/United-States.html, what type of receiver do I need for these channels?
Lyngsat is a resource to use with C and Ku-band satellites. These are *not* the satellites that Direct and Dish use to transmit their signal to the 18" receiver. These *are* the satellites that are used to transmit (among other things) network feeds to your cable company, local network affiliate, and to the Dish and Direct uplink facilities, IIRC.
So, what you want to use to get to those first generation broadcasts is a C-band receiver such as http://broadband.motorola.com/catalog/productdetail.asp?ProductID=227 and it's affiliated Sidecar. The downside is that you really need a 9' or larger antenna with rotors to pull down the various different feeds.
The real benefit to going this route is that you can subscribe to programming in an ala-carte fasion. Pick exactly the networks you want to pay for if they aren't already free-to-air.
HTH
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