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PostPosted: Sun Apr 03, 2005 8:10 pm 
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Ok, please help me out here with HD generalities. I currently have no HD inputs (but I relaize that an OTA antena is not much money) but will be moving to new house, with new cable company. I havent been able to keep up with the HD forum chatter. I am looking for an up-to-date summary, or 'state of the nation' on HD

here are my questions, im an HD newbwee..

1) please help me with the broadcast bit date
2) Do I need to buy a HD board soon
3) will I only be able to access OTA HD
4) can I send HD data to myth box from an Hd CABLECO box some how
5) can i send HD video between FE/BE via 801.11g?
6) if the answers above questions lead me to buy an HD board, which one?

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PostPosted: Sun Apr 03, 2005 8:55 pm 
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1)7/01/05
2)Before the above
3)No. Both the pcHDTV and Air2PC support unencrypted QAM.
4)If you CableCo's set top box has a firewire port, yes.
5)I don't know.
6)Either the pcHDTV or Air2PC are support under Linux. However at the moment, only the pcHDTV works out the box w/ KnoppMyth.

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PostPosted: Mon Apr 04, 2005 12:05 am 
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Cesman so from your statement am I to take it that these pchdtv 2.0 drivers I keep hearing about have the qam support? I've asked a couple of people, and noone could answer me, not to mention actually getting the drivers running.

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PostPosted: Mon Apr 04, 2005 12:34 am 
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I don't have a link handy at the moment, but yes I believe the 2.0 drivers do.

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There's been chatter recently about using Firewire to capture cable programming. Apparently there's some sort of FCC mandate that says the cable cos. much make a firewire box available to subscribers -- although the cable boys can charge something for it. Specifically, they seem to tie the Firewire I/F to their "hdtv" box (sometimes even their "hdtv pvr" box) and charge a few bucks a month for it.

Regardless, the cable co is supposed to transfer broadcast channels unencrypted, but what's actually happening varies widely from place to place.

I have a regular 'ol UHF antenna in my attic with an amplifier on it, and I'm pulling in broadcast stations from about 45-50 miles away. It gets a little dicey when it rains, but otherwise I get excellent reception. Digital rocks!

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PostPosted: Tue Apr 05, 2005 6:34 am 
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Ok, so if I have an HD box with firewire port. do I still need an HD card in my myth box, or just a firewire port and an IRBlaster?

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If you get it all working, you should be able to record HD programs via Firewire with no need for a HD tuner card. You also don't need an IR blaster as the channel change gets done via Firewire as well.

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