On 2/21/13 11:45 PM, DANIEL DAVID EGLI wrote: > *I'm getting ready to design a MythTV box. I have most of the hardware > picked out, but I'm looking for some recommendations on TV Tuners. I prefer > USB tuners as they are likely a lot easier to deal with when dealing with > multiple tuners in the same machine, and given a simple USB hub can be > stacked to MythTV's maximum number of controllable tuners easily (which is > what, by the way? Anyone really know?), but PCIe are ok as well, IF you can > get multiple tuners on one card (like the old WinTV PVR500 cards that had > two tuners on a single PCI card.
The SiliconDust HDHomeRun is a reasonably priced dual OTA tuner. It connects via ethernet, and I've heard of people with many of them. It will not work for DirecTV. If you choose to use Comcast, then you can use the HDHomeRun Prime, which is similar but has 3 digital cable tuners. I have Dish, and use the Hauppauge HD PVR. It's a USB device with component in, and will encode your HD signal into MPEG-4. It only has one input. I use the CommandIR to send the IR signals to my Dish set top box, as the cheaper serial IR blaster I was using previously was unreliable when sending signals to a Dish receiver. I really like the CommandIR, it doesn't even require lircd. Steve /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
