Michael T. Dean wrote:
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.
Before someone cries foul, I should explain that I mean it only supports
two sources using S-Video/Composite. If you have DISH, DirecTV, and
analog Charter cable, you can plug DISH into the S-Video on the card,
DirecTV into theS-Video on the A/V cable set, and Charter into the RF
input on the card, but you can't do three STB's on the same PVR-150.
And, yes, you could with a PVR-500, but each encoder on the 500 would
only have access to at most two STB's, so that's no different from two
150's.
Mike
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