On Sun, 2005-09-11 at 17:01 -0400, Michael Tiller wrote: > I don't know if the BTTV card just sucked (it was a Win-TV card) or if > there was some kind of interference with the PVR-150?!? If anybody > knows of a reason why the presence of the PVR-150 should make the BTTV > signal suck and knows a way to address the problem, I'm all ears.
I tried to use a pcHDTV-3000 in the same machine as a PVR-150, and had the same problem: the PVR-150 looked great, the signal for the 3000 sucked. In my case it turned out to be a signal strength problem. I was trying to split the signal, and apparently it degraded it enough the 3000 was sensitive to it. The 3000 worked fine without splitter. I ended up with the same problem when I switched to a PVR-150 and a PVR-500. The 150 worked great, the 500 had problems with low numbered channels. Again the 500 worked fine without the splitter, so I ended up using just the 500 and putting the 150 into my front end system (solves my problem getting the Streamzap remote I bought to work on the front end, since the Hauppage remote works fine with the 150). You might try plugging the cable only into the bttv card and removing any splitter you might have had to get both cards connected, and see if the bttv card works better then. In my case, it's just too long a run. I don't have a cable outlet in the computer room so I had to bring it through the wall from the living room. It's a 20 foot cable and there's just no way I can put a splitter at the end of such a long run. I tried using a signal amplifier and it helped only a little and the signal on the second card was still not good enough. I tried swapping cables to rule out a bad cable. I'm assuming that it's just not possible to put a splitter at the end of a long run. --Greg
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