I've been playing around with getting my cable companies (Comcast, New Castle Co. Delaware) QAM "free to air" broadcasts working with my HD3000 card using the dvb drivers. I actuall am able to tune all the local HD channels, INHD 1&2 and a lot of simulcast digital std content. The problem is that most of it comes out like crap. lots of continuity errors, audio drop outs, and just lots of problem. Pretty much non watchable. In looking for channels, I did the tedious searching with dvbstream, and spliting up the stream with dtvstream (-tsprog in mplayer was unreliable). In doing this I recorded 15-180 second chunks and looked at them. Things were decent at times, but still tons of continuity errors.
In recent years I've totally replace the wiring in my house with RG6 Quad Shieled cable, and recently replaced my spliters. Currently we subscribe to only regular analog cable, and have an onsite filter (on the pole) that gives up HBO (the good old days of onsite content scrambling). What I'm getting at is what are the chances of getting good quality out of QAM (last thing I can thing to do is replace the wire from the house to the pole with RG6 QS). Or will subing to digital cable and getting a firewire enabled cable box give me better / more reliable quality. I am able to get some channels ota, but not all, so thats why I'm looking at cable. plus being able to possibly tune some of the other non-hd channels digitally is a nice incentive. Well thanks in advance for any suggestions / observations shared. _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
