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6th generation HD tuner news?

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On Nov 14, 5:56 pm, wrote:
On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:36:36 -0800
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| I cannot believe that it is November 14th, 2007 and LG has still not
| released a 6th generation HDTV tuner. I e-mail LG and Samsung every
| so often to ask for news and get nothing. Think of all the people who
| have HD capable TVs but no tuner, or just older lousy tuners they are
| not happy with. Think about all the people with front projectors that
| need HD tuners.

Have you even managed to get them to read any email at all?

| I want an over-the-air full HD tuner using the 6th generation LG chip
| with a hard drive that will record both standard definition and full
| 1080 and 720 HD TV programs at full resolution. I think the market for
| such a product is huge, but LG only sells an old model that does not
| actually decode full HD from the air, it just down-converts full HD
| signals to standard definition and feeds you crap.

I'd rather just have one that plugs into a computer and is compatible
with BSD and Linux kernel either through existing drivers or with new
open source drivers. Then I can plug in 5 of these and store everything
on my disk drive array.

| I would buy today either a 6th generation Samsung or 6th generation LG
| full HDTV receiver with a built in computer style hard drive. Hard
| drives are so big and cheap these days and they have just about gotten
| everything you need for the tuner on one single $15. chip, so I do not
| see the hold-up. I mean look at how excessively complex 7.1 channel
| audio receivers are. A HDTV tuner-recorder should be a piece of cake
| for them.

Why not just have a small tuner with a USB, Firewire, and/or eSATA port
and plug in an external hard drive of your own choosing? Oh wait, that
would be a computer.

I don't want have to boot up my computer just to watch TV, or run
wires from my computer to my TV room.
IB--

A cheap 400mhz PC from ebay etc. can easily run a myhd card. Keep it in the
TV room. The ATSC tuner in it does work pretty well.

"There's nothing on it worthwhile, and we're not going to watch it in this
household, and I don't want it in your intellectual diet."
- Philo T. Farnsworth

6th generation HD tuner news?

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I don't want have to boot up my computer just to watch TV, or run
wires from my computer to my TV room.

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You turn your computer off?

6th generation HD tuner news?

On Nov 16, 12:48 am, wrote:
On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 19:16:39 -0800 (PST) wrote:

| I don't want have to boot up my computer just to watch TV, or run
| wires from my computer to my TV room.

With a properly built system, you just "turn it on" and in a couple seconds
you have video. I'm not talking about Windows or Red Hat.

Nothing wrong with Windows, XP-ing it here. My first build, well, I'd
be ashamed to say, being so very long ago (before HDs). I've never
bought (or sold) a computer I didn't build. The biggest problem with
a homebuild (after exhaustively researching HDTVs across a couch from
the computer), is don't do what I did, but be sure to get the
motherboard that says "wakes up" when IR keyboard/mouse is jiggled.
Really, the activation time for a HDTV set to come out of standby or
power up is negligible to XP booting (properly, primary partition is
OS-only, efficiently maintained and then Ghosted, toss in a boot
arbitrator, with program installs always going to another partition as
links into the OS, physically separated).