On 5/12/06, O Plameras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
OK, I'll test my MythTV box by taking it to my previous residence in
Middlecove.
It's atop the hill and I have line of sight to at least 2 TV towers from
there. I can see
these two towers rain or shine from my backyard.
I now live in a Valley although my antennae here is sufficiently high.
That's not a bad idea. Certainly might give you something to work with
should it work or not.
The advantage of having hardware encoding in the card is it will allow
TV recieving even when one has only a 500MHZ PC. I am running my
card on a 800MHZ Compaq PC with 512MB memory (I bought second
hand PC for $80 and memory for $75). I'm using on-board Intel video
chip.
I can understand the advantages, but for the cost.. hrmm I am happy
with my card, although as I said its purely cause I had a system left
over when I bought a new AMD64 x2 3800+ etc.
A friend here at my work got onto mythtv after my experience and he is
using an old P3 800 with 128mb ram. Running 2 tuners like mine and
sends the signal via A/V senders to another room. SD for him work fine
(HD of course dont).
Totally agree. Flexibility is one main appeal and MythTV is
being actively developed and maintained. It's user base is constantly
increasing and that's something that says about its appeal. It's clearly
the leader in it's market spectrum.
Of course its only as good as the guide information you get. Maybe I
might get paid guide data one day, for the moment the
immir.com/tv_grab_au works fine.
Further more the biggest appeal is saying I want X show to record on Y
channel whenever its on and as long as the guide updates and is
correct, I pretty much get my show. That alone is great, no need to
maintain an eye on the tv guide when using a non intelligent solution
like a PVR or VCR.
Oh and being able to use mythweb remotely rocks too.
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