I can not agree with the statement "digital OTA tuners are beyond useless".... I've observed the high quality of the image using under $100 USB tuner. Monitor resolution was 1990x1200 which is higher than HD resolution. No digital artifacts observed. (I was quite surprised myself.....)
The catch here is the broadcast quality ! With same hardware, you will see incredible difference between read HD broadcast, and the relayed syndication broadcast. I think in New Orleans area, there is only one real HD broadcast (WYES) All the others are broadcasting quite crappy signal which used receiver naturally can not make it any better. Also, in case of system CPU decoding, the processor speed and amount of memory. Makes a big difference indeed if CPU is not fast enough for decoding. (With intel Core 2 duo @ 1.86Ghz, the CPU utilization was ~23%) Petri Andrew Baudouin wrote: > IMNSHO, digital OTA tuners are beyond useless at this time. Any > decent content requires CableCard, which we all know is locked in to > certain vendors and Windows. THe cable companies have now priced PC > DVR's out of the market with their $5.99/mo HD and premium content > capable box rentals. Even MythTV now requires a $20/year Schedules > Direct subscription. > > > On Nov 20, 2007 10:53 AM, c.a. weisheit <carl70448 at yahoo.com> wrote: > >> I was using a card I already had around the house. You get what you pay for. >> if you have a better tuner card for $13 please post the link for the rest of >> us. >> I also said I was looking at digital cards. I plan to upgrade very soon. If >> I am going to spend more money on a card I want it to work beyond the next >> two years. >> >> >> Andrew Baudouin <andrewmb at gmail.com> wrote: >> um, stop right there.... WinTV Go (BTTV) lacks hardware MPEG-2 >> encoding, so your cpu will be wasted on that. In addition, the >> quality of their analog tuner lags far behind that of the PVR (ivtv) >> models. >> >> >> On Nov 20, 2007 10:08 AM, c.a. weisheit wrote: >> >>> for ed and others who asked about the mythtv box I brought to monday >>> >> nights >> >>> meeting. This is the tuner I used. now selling for $13 >>> >>> http://www.surpluscomputers.com/store/main.aspx?p=ItemDetail&item=CRD10186 >>> >> >> >> ________________________________ >> Get easy, one-click access to your favorites. Make Yahoo! your homepage. >> _______________________________________________ >> General mailing list >> General at brlug.net >> http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General at brlug.net > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mail.brlug.net/pipermail/general_brlug.net/attachments/20071120/3f5cf166/attachment.html
