MythTV presentation sources and resources.

[Colin McGregor]

--- Dave Germiquet <davegermiquet-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> - Get a basic (under $50) nVidia based card for
> output, and what ever tuner card(s) meet your
> technical/budget demands (the route I have currently
> taken).
> 
> If its any help, I used this option to with my PVR
> 150. The thing to
> note is that some tuners have blasters.. I don't
> think the 350 does :)

Valid point. There have been multiple versions of the
Happauge PVR-150, some with remote controls, and/or IR
blasters. An IR blaster is important IF you need your
computer to be able to control an external cable
and/or satellite TV box (the IR blaster lets your
MythTV box mimic the remote for the cable or satellite
box). 

The above explains why Tiger Direct sells two versions
of the PVR-150 one for $85.99 another for $121.99
(first is just the bare card, the other is card plus
remote, IR detector and IR blaster).

You will likely want multiple tuners (Murphy's Law for
TV being: 29 days of the month there is nothing but
@#$% on TV and then for 1-2 days everything you want
to see is scheduled all at the same time :-( ). But in
a typical MythTV box you only want/need one TV IR
detector. So, if your hopeless with tools (see below)
you would want one tuner with the extra bits and the
extra card(s) to be bare bones.

If you are handy with a low wattage soldering iron,
you can build your own IR detector, as I've noted
here:

  http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8811

Colin McGregor

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