[LUNI] OT: Linux-friendly TV Tuners for sale

[Roberto Serrano]

I have comcast digital working with an external box and my analog tunner
(pvr-150).

I use a serial cable to control the box, is very easy to get it set up, and
there is plenty of documentation on how to do this. Unless you get screwed
up with a tuner box w/o serial port you can definitely go this route.

If you want, let me know what box you get and I will send you a copy of my
"external tuner script" -  it is actually a binary.

The really good thing about going digital is that paying a bit extra a month
you can get the HD box that has fire-wire port.  I played with it a couple
years ago with not much success -  back then the support was flaky - but I
can only imaging now has gotten a lot better.   Does anyone have a rig like
this?  How is mythtv with the comcast HD box nowadays?

Roberto


On 6/9/07, sten <lists at redboy.cx> wrote:
>
>
> Hi, list-
>
> I've got a pair of Hauppauge PVR-250 PCI cards that I've been using in my
> MythTV box, but Comcast just shut off the analog signal here, which makes
> them useless to me [1]. These are great cards- you build the IVTV module,
> and you can just cat /dev/videoN and you've got an MPEG2 file. Works
> flawlessly with MythTV, never had a problem with them. I poked around on the
> web, and the lowest price I see them new is $120. How's $75 apiece sound?
> I'm in Hyde Park and somewhat flexible on pickup times.
>
> -sten
>
> [1] I'm fully aware that I can pay Comcast to send me 2 upgraded converter
> boxes at an extra charge, and spend weeks hacking scripts to try to control
> the converter boxes from MythTV over serial cables. I think I'd rather read
> a book.
>
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