![]() ![]() After a little online shopping, I settled on a Hauppauge WinTV-DCR (model 2650), a dual-tuner CableCARD receiver that connects to the PC via USB. So part of the motivation of trying out MythTV was that I needed to install a new tuner in any case. The tuner in the PC can only capture analog channels ( NTSC), and Comcast is moving more and more channels to digital. The PC has an NVidia graphics card (the precise model is, I think, irrelevant) that connects to the TV via an HDMI cable. I run the incoming cable through a splitter, with one connection to the TV (flat-screen HD) through a set-top cable box and the other to the tuner card in the PC. I should note a few more things about my equipment before diving in. It will be a long post, as it was a long process. Herein I chronicle some of the details in case they'll help anyone else. The process has taken much longer than I expected, partly due to dopiness on my part, partly due to sketchy instructions here and there (or presumptions that I know things I do not). For a variety of reasons, Vista has increasingly gotten on my nerves, so I finally bit the bullet and replaced it with MythTV. I've used it almost exclusively as a personal video recorder. A few years back, I bought a tower PC with Windows Vista Media Center (home version) and a tuner card built in. ![]()
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