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| Author: | cloudtrix [ Wed Oct 22, 2008 2:08 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Confused about the USA digital switchover. Please help. |
Hi, I just moved back to the US after living in London for a year. The myth community was great in helping me reconfigure my mythbox to work with the UK DTV using a nova-t card. Now that I am back in the states it seems that things have changed. And my old North American configuration will not work. Zap2it is gone? Is there a way to get guide data OTA the same way my freeview card did? Which card can I use after the digital switchover? Will my HD-3000 still work? So confused .... Cheers, -e |
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| Author: | jmckeown2 [ Wed Oct 22, 2008 3:23 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Confused about the USA digital switchover. Please help. |
cloudtrix wrote: Zap2it is gone? Sadly, true. SchedulesDirect is the replacement. $20/year, slight improvement over Zap2It's excellent standard. The $20 fee is accepted as a necessary evil by the vast majority of us.cloudtrix wrote: Is there a way to get guide data OTA the same way my freeview card did? If the freeview card did it poorly then yes; we're identical. Seriously, EIT is a real mixed bag, get SchedulesDirect. cloudtrix wrote: Which card can I use after the digital switchover? There's ATSC for Off-the-air digital, or QAM for most cable's digital. Most of the cards I've seen handle both. As always, check for drivers before getting the card. Recording off cable w/o a box from the cable co will only get you unencrypted channels, which depending on where you live could mean "nothing but what's available OTA." If you're going to use a cable box then you might lose HD, but probably will be able to use an analog card depending on the cable box's outputs. cloudtrix wrote: Will my HD-3000 still work?
Yes, it's one of the ones that handles both ATSC and QAM. |
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| Author: | cloudtrix [ Thu Oct 23, 2008 4:09 pm ] |
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jmckeown2 - Thanks. |
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