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WanMan
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Link Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2011 9:23 pm Post subject: Anyone try the current M-card products with HTPC? |
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Products like the Ceton infiniTV 4, or the Silicon Dust HDhomerun?
DirecTV gave up on the HTPC solution a year ago, and for some (me) this was a long awaited product. The current move by cable TV, dbs and IPTV providers (e.g. U-verse) is to move to whole-house solutions that just cannot do the job in terms of my household's need for storage capacity of HD programming.
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MikeEby
Joined: 24 Jun 2007 Posts: 5238 Location: Osceola, Indiana
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Link Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2011 4:19 am Post subject: |
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I have the OTA HDHomerun that I've been using for years. I also have a HDHomerun Prime on order and a cable card ready when it comes in. I'll be connecting to Comcast...I really like the idea of keeping the tuner card out of the PC, this way any Windows 7 PC on my network can be a HD digital cable box.
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WanMan
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Link Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2011 9:11 pm Post subject: |
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Mike, how is storage handled if it is outside the PC?
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greg_mitch
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Link Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2011 1:23 am Post subject: |
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I have the HD Homerun dual tuner ATSC/QAM tuner. In Windows 7 it can pull QAM cable channels also. It acts merely as a tuner for the 7MC boxes so the storage is local to each machine that "logs into" the tuner. It shows up on the network and any computer on the network that is properly setup can get one of the tuners.
I am using a Hauppauge 2250 in my main HTPC and it has dual tuners also and they are both QAM so I can get 4xOTA HD or 4xCable at any one time. It is pretty slick.
If Mediacom didn't want to ream you for a cable card (digital cable) I would definitely get a HDHomerun Prime...but I heard the Ceton cards were coming down in price a LOT recently (something like less than $300 for the 4xtuner). That would be really cool to be able to timeshift those channels.
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