On 10-11-15 06:58 AM, Gerald Brandt wrote:
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From: "Mike Pfaiffer"high.res.mike@gmail.com To: "MUUG Roundtable"roundtable@muug.mb.ca Sent: Sunday, November 14, 2010 3:53:31 PM Subject: [RndTbl] TV tuner cards Does anybody have any experience with digital TV tuner cards? I'm thinking of picking one up in the next couple of months and I'm curious about which ones work well with Shaw. It would be nice to have access to the HD channels on the computer since none of the TVs in the house (or the one digital box we have) is HD compatible.
I think I would need a basic set of definitions and vocabulary to work from before I start. Incidentally I plan to follow this up with a call to Shaw some time in the next couple of months. Consulting the folks here seems to be the logical first step (even before Google) because a few have actually set these things up.
Some time in the future I might consider some FTA stuff. The one person I know who uses it all the time keeps putting off my request to actually see it in action. Sure the reviews from the satellite buffs are "It's great" but that really doesn't say anything.
Later Mike
I have a mythtv system, and I use the Hauppauge HD-PVR. It takes component in and spits out H.264 720P out USB. Since I'm using Shaw, I have one of their Motorola boxes, and I can change channels via firewire.
I had initially thought the TV tuner card would take input from the cable itself and choose the channel from there. The hope was it would be like a cable box without the box. We already have a standard resolution box. I was hoping I could put some HD content on my Linux machine without actually having to pick up an HD box.
As a stereotypical Winnipegger I may be cheap, but I'm not trying to get something for nothing. We are already paying for digital content. I gather the base HD package is the same as the base non-HD package except the box can't decrypt it. Demanding specific hardware to decrypt a signal we already pay for (and decrypt on ONE box) seems unreasonable to me. Especially given their attitude to their analogue signal.
Gerald
Later Mike