Re: [PLUG] HDHomeRun and Comcast Pre-liminary Report

[Edward Smola <meanderis@mac.com>]

Thanks for the info so far.  I'm quite interested in hearing all about  
your experience.  I really am thinking about getting one but haven't  
found enough usefull local feedback on how easy it is to get it  
working with SD.  I'd be interested in finding out all the channels  
you get.  Right now it's that or another pvr-500.

Edward Smola

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On Oct 5, 2007, at 2:32 PM, TuskenTower <tuskentower@gmail.com> wrote:

> All,
> I attended the MythTV presentation by on Sept 22 hosted at the ATS
> Group.  Andrew, another attendee who had an HDHomeRun offered to let
> me borrow his to try it out with Comcast.
>
> It was pretty funny having to wait till I could configure it since my
> MythTV system was always recording when I had time to mess with it.  I
> finally configured it with one RF input for OTA and the other for
> comcast cable.
>
> I ran a scan of channels and a large number came in.  Someone had told
> me before that QAM256 does not pick up the analog channels.  I did not
> pick up the analog channels (at least not at their normal numbers).
>
> The free to air HD channels came in just fine.  I used the standard
> cable scan which did everything from 0 to max.  These channels come in
> at the same numbering that my HDTV "sees".  I can record from those
> channels and view everything just fine.  Watching live TV over the
> HDHomeRun occasionally stuttered, but that might be my hardware.
>
> Other channels are there, but they do not correspond to anything that
> comes through with Schedules Direct's listings (the HD channels didn't
> get their listing from SD either).  I did a quick run through of what
> channels came up with both MythTV and my HDTV.  For the most part the
> scanned channels exist.  Some channels were either scrambled,
> non-existent or snow (in two cases).  The HDTV actually picked up a
> few more channels than the HDHomeRun.
>
> I'll try to do some more testing this weekend to see what I find.  I
> did do a list of all the channels that I found.  I did find many
> analog signals coming in over QAM256, some free to air and others
> which look like very basic cable channels.
>
> Amul
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