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?
Actually, the 125 channel limitation is imposed not by the ATI card or any other tuner card, but by the cable TV standard. OTA NTSC supports 69 channels and cable TV supports 125. Any system that supports more channels than that is using some proprietary standard to transmit the channels, and, therefore, requires a proprietary tuner (the DirecTV receiver in this case). Same holds for DISH network, for digital cable, etc.
So, your best picture would come from outputting S-Video from the Set-Top-Box (STB) to the capture card. If you really have multiple sources (i.e. Charter, DISH, and DirecTV), you can connect them to different inputs on the same card if you buy the A/V cable set ( http://registration.hauppauge.com/webstore/hardware1.asp#av_cable ), but it will only support two sources. If you want more, you're probably better off buying additional cards.
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