TV upgrade -- HDHomeRun and MythTV 0.22

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After The Great TV Transition To Digital, Comcast for a while kept transmitting everything in analog NTSC, so I was able to use my Hauppauge WinTV PVR-250 for cable, and occasionally watched over-the-air ATSC with HVR-950. It was clear that this was not going to last, and recently all but few NTSC channels disappeared. On top of that, when HVR-950

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Pretty much what you would expect a nerd like myself to watch -- ST:TOS/TNG/DS9 reruns, cartoons/anime on Adult Swim, occasionally South Park, Doctor Who (before and after the sixteen years gap), even more occasionally public TV documentaries.

Though it may look like strong preference for escapism, I think that it's more based on my idea that when anything fictional on TV pretends to reflect anything in modern real life or 20th century history, it ends up serving such a soup of stereotypes, it would be better if it didn't pretend doing so in the first place.

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Wow... Sorry you're still using Comcast. (Wouldn't hold my breath that they don't DRM their output eventually.)

It's nice to see we've got monitor resolutions in common. I use a 1680 x 1050 myself, and I wouldn't go back to 1024 x 768. ^_^; One of these years I'll go to 1080 vertical.

Glad you're having better luck with over the air than I am. I got one of those damn USB stick ATSC receivers from Pinnacle before they handed off to another company and it's damn near unreliable unless I'm located outdoors or within the closest city to the transmitters.

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Glad you're having better luck with over the air than I am. I got one of those damn USB stick ATSC receivers from Pinnacle

Hauppauge HVR-950 is a stick, and it's not really that bad -- my problems with it are mostly with how drivers and MythTV handle error recovery. HDHomeRun never gets stuck, however it still sees dropped data on some channels when connected to my "rabbit ears" antenna.

before they handed off to another company and it's damn near unreliable unless I'm located outdoors or within the closest city to the transmitters.

It helps being located right across the bay from a giant TV tower on a huge hill. Digital TV transition would be less of a pain in the ass if they made sure that new transmitters actually can be heard by people who had usable analog signal.

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