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color=#0000ff size=2>I have a pcHDTV that I was never able to get to work to my
satisfaction. The back-end machine is probably too slow.
It is an old AMD running at 2 GHz or so.</FONT></SPAN></DIV></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2>I have a friend who is skilled in the A-V art. He
agrees with you that OTA is better than Mediacom. He suspects the Mediacom
signal gets compressed and says that if you look at them side-by-side that OTA
is much cleaner.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=174195421-02122008><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Interestingly, he also bought what he called the "Mother
throw-down" Media Center PC from HP and has had much difficulty getting it to
play back HD video. It can play black blu-ray and stutters at points
during the movie, cannot get the soundtrack in anything better than stereo
without an expensive processor (which he has since purchased) and gets annoying
borders around playback windows.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=174195421-02122008><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>There is a border at the high end of PC-multimedia
integration that you cannot cross without paying big bucks in licensing, or
doing something "illegal" (see DMCA, etc). He has been trying to do the
right thing but HP is blocked by Microsoft who will not issue some kind of
updates since they decided media playback at the high-end is an appliance
feature not a consumer media PC feature. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2>I have decided I am, for now, happy with MythTV and
my DVD-quality playback and decided I would not want to push the envelope
because the people creating this stuff don't even seem to have a handle on the
legal issues even if they can do the technical pieces. It seems to be a
real mess and even Tivo is starting to suffer from it. We had our TivoHD
set to playback at 720p. This weekend we got a message floating around the
screen during playback that said the copyright holder of the program will not
allow playback in HD. It was a standard-def recording.
grr.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=174195421-02122008><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>-Nate</FONT></SPAN></DIV><BR>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> cialug-bounces@cialug.org
[mailto:cialug-bounces@cialug.org] <B>On Behalf Of
</B>jrnosee@gmail.com<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, December 02, 2008 3:53
PM<BR><B>To:</B> Central Iowa Linux Users Group<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re:
[Cialug] MythTV HD tuner?<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>I have the Pinnacle 800i PCTV HD Card and I'm fighting to get it to
work with MythTV/MythBuntu. Every attempt I get closer. I know for
linux the only option for HD tuning used to be pcHDTV. I've heard it
works well, but never seen one in action. The HDHomeRun seems like a
great bet to me since I think all you do is setup the tuner box and it streams
over ethernet. HDHR has 2 tuners and can handle ATSC or QAM (unencrypted
cable) so it should work with OTA and Mediacom. Last time I checked
mediacom's offerings for HD they sucked anyways, you're better off just
pulling in the OTA or QAM, you won't get much extra, and the only DVR likely
to work with medicom's "extended" HD offerings would be their own DVR
box.<BR><BR>--Justin<BR><BR>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 3:20 PM, Jonathan C. Bailey
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style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid">I
don't think HDHR will ever do CableCard. CableLabs wouldn't certify it, so
they could never sell it. Typical..<BR>
<DIV class=Ih2E3d><BR><BR>----- Original Message -----<BR>From: "Nathan C.
Smith" <<A
href="mailto:nathan.smith@ipmvs.com">nathan.smith@ipmvs.com</A>><BR>To:
"Central Iowa Linux Users Group" <<A
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<DIV class=Wj3C7c>Sent: Tuesday, December 2, 2008 3:19:22 PM GMT -06:00
US/Canada Central<BR>Subject: RE: [Cialug] MythTV HD tuner?<BR><BR>Maybe for
Digital cable somebody knows better, but I think we are SOL.<BR><BR>Somebody
here turned me on to the silicon HDHomerun and it is a pretty neat
dual-tuner setup. <A
href="http://www.silicondust.com/products/hdhomerun"
target=_blank>http://www.silicondust.com/products/hdhomerun</A><BR><BR>Maybe
they will introduce one that accepts cablecards in the future.<BR><BR>Don't
forget, you actually have to have a machine capable of playing back HD.
I think my backend machine will do some but my front-end, a 1.2 Ghz
shuttle, will not.<BR><BR>-Nate<BR><BR>> -----Original
Message-----<BR>> From: <A
href="mailto:cialug-bounces@cialug.org">cialug-bounces@cialug.org</A><BR>>
[mailto:<A
href="mailto:cialug-bounces@cialug.org">cialug-bounces@cialug.org</A>] On
Behalf Of David Champion<BR>> Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 3:15
PM<BR>> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group<BR>> Subject: [Cialug]
MythTV HD tuner?<BR>><BR>> For those of you MythTV users... what's the
current state of<BR>> the art for<BR>> HD tuners for
MythTV?<BR>><BR>> I'm updating to a HDTV for xmas, and thinking about
re-building my<BR>> MythTV box. Have a PVR-250 card I can use for SD
encoding, but I'm<BR>> thinking about getting a HD card
too.<BR>><BR>> I don't have HD service yet (other than OTA). Currently
my<BR>> only option<BR>> at my condo is Mediacom cable, and I'm only
doing Extended<BR>> Basic at this<BR>> point. I've been trying to work
on getting dish service in<BR>> the building,<BR>> but that's a longer
process that has to go through the condo<BR>>
association.<BR>><BR>> -dc<BR>><BR>><BR>>
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