[Cialug] HDHomeRun

[Tony Bibbs]

One of the things I love about my current tivo box is the integration with DirectTV.  One physical box.

With my current MythTV setup I have 2 physical boxes, one DirectTV tuner, one MythTV Box.  If I had two tuners you could throw in another physical box.

With HDHomeRun you'd have to have two HD DirectTV tuners, the HDHomeRun unit and the MythTV box.

At some point getting it working well has to take a seat to "looking good" and having *four* physical boxes simply can't look good.  

--Tony

----- Original Message ----
From: Jonathan A. Kollasch <jakllsch at kollasch.net>
To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group <cialug at cialug.org>
Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 7:38:25 PM
Subject: Re: [Cialug] HDHomeRun

On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 09:34:03AM -0500, David Champion wrote:
> Matthew Nuzum wrote:
> >On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 16:34 -0500, Jonathan A. Kollasch wrote:
> >>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. 
> >
> >Have you tried watching TV via a computer connected with wifi? (802.11g)
> >
> >My wife has been asking for the ability to watch live TV in the kitchen
> >on her laptop. I'm wondering if this would be a good solution for her
> >since it's not much different in price to the USB OTA HD tuners.
> 
> Depends on what resolution & encoding you're using. 4:3 640x480 would 
> probably be fine. 1080p HD, you would not have enough bandwidth.

Not even 720p or 1080i.  I've only had success with streaming 480i
standard definition over 11g.

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