[Cialug] HDHomeRun

[Dave Weis]

Jonathan A. Kollasch wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 03:48:01PM -0500, Jeffrey C. Ollie wrote:
>> Interesting new doohickey for those of you into home-brew DVR:  Two HDTV
>> tuners and an ethernet port in a box for $169.  The best news is that
>> there is a LGPL command line client that runs on Linux for controlling
>> it, plus it's supported by MythTV.  I know what just went to the top of
>> my father's day wish list...
> 
> I got one a month or two ago. It works great.  Using it for OTA-8VSB
> reception, don't have cable.  Of course, this being HDTV, you are
> working with 6-8G of data an hour.  Plus, it takes a pretty good machine
> (or a slower box with a XvMC-compatible video card) just to play
> it.  I have one tuner set up to work with mythtv, and the other
> one is mostly a record-only kind of thing run out of cron.

For those of us that aren't HD enhanced, will it tune normal cable and 
OTA channels?

dave