--- chris king wrote: > This is probably a stupid question, no doubt it has > been answered in some > random form at least 200 million times but I must > know. Ok I used to have an > ati all in wonder card, and I used to use the ati > software tv > bullcrap.Anyway it was limited to 125 channles, so > for direct-tv i had to > set it to channel 4 then record stuff. Where will > the myth tv box need to > sit in order to work with all of my channels on > charter/dish/directv or will > i need to do the channel 4 thing?
Understand that MythTV is just a Free Open Source equivalent of the "ati software TV bullcrap". You're still going to have to "do the channel 4 thing". If you have an IR retransmitter then you can tune your ATI card to channel 4 and have your PC change channels on the external tuner box. This is the reason why I have stuck to analog cable TV. I can split my cable into as many video coax lines as I want, within reason, and plug each line directly into a simple analog tuner. If I were to "upgrade" to digital cable or satellite I'd only have one video coax line, unless I bought multiple external tuner boxes. For me, it's worth it to stick with analog cable TV and a PVR 250, with a mere 80 channels, rather than "upgrade" to the far less versatile digital cable, with 200 channels of the same awful TV shows, but YMMV. In an ideal world I could get 30 channels of over the air digital TV for free, a la the UK's freeview, and dump my cable TV and phone subscriptions while also signing up for $30/Month FIOS at 10Mbps down and 3Mbps up so saving about $100/Month, however, I doubt that that will happen any time soon :-( ----------------------------------------------------- | o | | _ /<_ | |(_)>(_) | |Ben Dash | |Ask free questions - http://bensqanda.blogspot.com | |My Blog - http://bensdailythoughts.blogspot.com | |Info - http://bensinformationstation.blogspot.com | |Workouts - http://bensworkouts.blogspot.com | ----------------------------------------------------- __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
