DVD/Hard Drive Recorders with ATST Tuners

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The mandated date was March 1, 2007. The manufacturers (all of them!)
are dragging their feet on this issue. There are plans to put them in
the market in the next couple of months. None of the announced ones
will record in HD format. None of them will have a hard drive. My
advice is to just buy one of the cheaper ones when they fisrt come
out, then get another one that actually records in HD and has a hard
drive later in a couple of years (since they also seem to be dragging
their feet on the including the hard drive too). Of course if you
still have a working VCR just keep using it until you can get what you
really want.

I agree they are really dragging their feet


But the questions is WHY?

Is there some reason why they are so slow abt
manufacturing?

Trying to let all the analog stock sell out to
unknowing consumers?

jolt wrote:
"BT" wrote in message
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Wes Newell wrote:
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 19:15:48 -0700, G-squared wrote:

Or, Wes Newell will tell you about his Linux system running 4 or 5 (or
is it 6 now?) Air2PC ATSC tuners.
Funny you should mention that. I do have 6 now, but the sixth isn't
installed. Don't really need it. So I stopped at 5 installed. And it's
only one or two times a month where I'm recording all 5 at once.

What type hard drive are you using that can take 5 HD streams at once? Can
any of them do QAM?

I've recorded from 6 tuners and watched a recorded show at the same time. I
don't know where the limit is on a 7200 rpm drive but it's enough for the
average HTPC user. As for QAM tuners the HDHomeRun seems to be the favored
tuner now because it works with several types of software, is ATSC / QAM
dual tuner and reasonably priced.

http://www.9thtee.com/hdhomerun.htm


Does it do QAM with all of the software listed? How does it connect to
the PC? Any chance it will work with beyond TV?

"BT" wrote in message
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jolt wrote:
"BT" wrote in message
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Wes Newell wrote:
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 19:15:48 -0700, G-squared wrote:

Or, Wes Newell will tell you about his Linux system running 4 or 5 (or
is it 6 now?) Air2PC ATSC tuners.
Funny you should mention that. I do have 6 now, but the sixth isn't
installed. Don't really need it. So I stopped at 5 installed. And it's
only one or two times a month where I'm recording all 5 at once.

What type hard drive are you using that can take 5 HD streams at once?
Can any of them do QAM?

I've recorded from 6 tuners and watched a recorded show at the same time.
I don't know where the limit is on a 7200 rpm drive but it's enough for
the average HTPC user. As for QAM tuners the HDHomeRun seems to be the
favored tuner now because it works with several types of software, is
ATSC / QAM dual tuner and reasonably priced.

http://www.9thtee.com/hdhomerun.htm
Does it do QAM with all of the software listed? How does it connect to
the PC? Any chance it will work with beyond TV?

Sage, Myth and MCE already work and Beyond TV is stated as coming soon. It
does dual QAM, or dual ATSC and even ATSC on one tuners while the other
tunes QAM.


http://www.silicondust.com/forum/ind...c38b6c92b83472

I wish I'd waited till these hit the market as I really like that the stream
is shared across the network so with a couple of these all the PCs on the
network could have access to HD via VLC or MCE.

I agree they are really dragging their feet

But the questions is WHY?

Is there some reason why they are so slow abt
manufacturing?

Trying to let all the analog stock sell out to
unknowing consumers?

That's the only reson I can think of. That and they assume that
everyone is using a cable box or something similiar.