On 8/31/05, A JM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm looking for some background on HD since I currently only run in SD. > > Can someone give me the lay of the land as far as being able to recieve HD > and watch HD? I "assume", bad word on my behalf, that by owning an HD card > (HD2000- HD3000) that the "decoding" portion of the signal is complete all > that is left is the actual signal?
I've got an HD3000 and I use an OTA antenna, NOT my cable companies cable (QAM). You plug either your cable company fed cable into the card, OR a cable running from (usually) a large roof top antenna. The cable company is called QAM, the antenna is called OTA, I seem to remember seeing it also called 8VSB. The HD3000 supports both. > We currenly have cable but do not use a cable box so we only get channels > below 70, I think it's with Insight Cable. Do you need a box or other > hardware to recieve the signal or just plug and play? This should be a plug and play thing, at least as far as that goes. You will need to configure your card correctly within myth, but I think that part is obvious. > Thanks for any insight the group can give. Insight, funny choice of words since that's your provider ;) The card is great. Getting the DVB drivers all running happily together can be a bit cumbersome for about 30 minutes, but the more I do it, the faster I can iron out the creases it seems. I have yet to use QAM at all, but from what I have read around here, on the AVS forums and from a few different miscellaneous pages, it provides more options and includes all the options that are available OTA. I have about 4 other capture cards that do my non-HD stuff for me, so I don't bother to see if the grass is greener or not. Good Luck! > AJM, > _______________________________________________ Chad _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
