MythTV hardware list

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Tue Sep 10 21:05:52 UTC 2013


On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 04:29:26PM -0400, Evan Leibovitch wrote:
> I am working right now with a HDHomerun
> tuner<http://www.silicondust.com/products/hdhomerun/hdhomerun-ca-canada/>connected
> to my wired home network at one end, and an attic-mounted
> antenna <http://www.channelmaster.com/ULTRAtenna_CM_4221HD_s/44.htm> at the
> other. The HDHR has explicit support for MythTV and from XBMC, but I'm
> trying to make it work with a lighter-weight Linux back-end called
> TVheadend instead of Myth.
> 
> My ultimate goal, is to give multiple TVs in the house access to the
> dual-tuner HDHR, in some cases using RaspBMC.
> 
> While waiting for this to work, I take advantage of HDHR's native support
> for Windows Media Center -- while use and watching is plug-and-play, the
> online schedule downloads are not.  :-P
> 
> Here are the digital channels I currently get over the air.
> 
> RELIABLE:
> 
>    - CFTO (CTV)
>    - CBLT (CBC)
>    - CIII (Global)
>    - CBLFT (Radio Canada)
>    - CITY
>    - CFMT (OMNI1)
>    - CJMT (OMNI2)
>    - CKCS (Crossroads)
>    - CICA (TVOntario)
>    - WIVB (CBS)
>    - WNLO (theCW)
> 
> UNRELIABLE BUT OCCASIONALLY USABLE
> 
>    - WNED (PBS)
>    - WGRZ (NBC)
>    - WUTV (Fox)
> 
> There's also a Buffalo Christian channel whose name I can't recall that
> shows up from time to time.
> 
> All signals are HD and really sharp (I'm told that Rogers signals are
> compressed and inferior to uncompressed OTA)

OTA is also compressed MPEG2, but rogers recompresses it even further
as far as I understand it.

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