On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 10:11:56AM -0400, David Fitzgerald wrote: > The HD-3000 specs or FAQs claim that you need to have an antenna and > that it is incompatible with a cable company's HDTV feed (I use RCN, > or Comcast is also available to me). Depending upon how you read > it, it may be talking about the older HD-2000 or maybe both the > HD-2000 and the HD-3000. I'm not sure if it is a typo or a > "feature". > > The other option, the Air2PC card, claims to optimally "receive 8VSB > (ATSC) digital broadcast signals", and appears to have only an RF > interface. Is this two different ways of saying that you simply > cannot capture any HTDV signal on either of these two cards w/o > having an antenna? > > If so, I'm extremely underwhelmed. The last thing I want to do is > deal with an antenna on a MythTV box. I'm hoping I'm mistaken.
FWIW, I am using two HD-3000 cards with great success using a $20 Radio Shack indoor UHF antenna as input (split to both cards). Of course, YMMV depending on your location relative to broadcast towers, etc. --Rob
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