Recommendations: Dual Digital Tuner

[sandor]

Originally Posted by gplasky

But there is not even a product out there that you can buy with the XC5000 chip in it, is there? So it DOES make the HDHR the best right now. And the HDHR does better at fringe reception than any of the Hauppague cards.

Gerry

It is actually is in use...

Pinnacle uses it for their HD products, Realtek uses it for their reference designs. And Hauppauge uses them for its WinTV-HVR-950Q USB and WinTV-HVR-1500.

And i love my HDHRs, and by no means am saying they are less than great, just that they don't have the top of the line tuners in them - this is actually one of the requests on silicondust's forums for the next-gen HDHR's.

In my experience, the A180s gave me a consistent 1% increase in signal strength over the HDHR - so basically nada. But again, i am not even close to fringe.

[evilpenguin]

Originally Posted by QueOnda

evilpenguin just pushed me over the edge and I got my 3rd. When my wife asks why! I'm going to send them to you and BRENT! OMG! I need to STOP reading GeekTonic and the Forums! LOL

This is actually my first tech purchase in over 2 months. I'm very proud of myself

[MeInMaui]

Originally Posted by evilpenguin

This is actually my first tech purchase in over 2 months. I'm very proud of myself

I'm thinking about getting another HDHR, but I'm just coming down off of a tech buying binge. I feel a bit guilty, but I'll get over it.

Aloha,
Mike

[QueOnda]

EP and MIM, How many would this make for you?

[evilpenguin]

Originally Posted by QueOnda

EP and MIM, How many would this make for you?

This will be my 2nd. When I could only get my 5 locals it didn't make much sense to have more than one, but now that my Comcast is moving a bunch of SDTV into clearQAM I decided to toss in an additional one.

[vrscdx]

I've got 2 HDHR's...I'd get more, but I still haven't cut the cord with Directv yet, because I can get the HD version through there, as opposed to my current Comcast QAM SD signal.

I wish I could record more HD channels than just the main network ones with the HDHR. I'd buy a couple more!

[CMO]

If that deal doesn't work, RitzCamera.com has it for the same price with a small shipping fee and no sales tax.

http://www.ritzcamera.com/product/EP44520306.htm

[psklenar]

Originally Posted by CMO

If that deal doesn't work, RitzCamera.com has it for the same price with a small shipping fee and no sales tax.

Unless they happen to have a presence in your state.

pat----

[CMO]

Originally Posted by psklenar

Unless they happen to have a presence in your state.

pat----

Actually Ritz Camera pays the sales tax if you live in a state that collects it (California, Georgia, Kansas and Maryland). When I lived in California I bought my Nikon DSLR from them. They paid the tax.

http://www.ritzcamera.com/help/shopp...ng.htm#anchor3

I'm just offering another option in case the Newegg deal falls through or is out of stock.

[psklenar]

Interesting. They have shops here in CT and they DID charge me state sales tax when mail ordered a christmas gift for my sister back in December from them. <shrug>

pat----

[LehighBri]

I have a HVR-2250 but am quite frustrated with how slowly bug fixes/improvements have been rolled out for it. I used to have a HDHomeRun but got rid of it since it didn't support regular cable channels (it's QAM support was great though). Have they rolled out support for regular cable yet? Not sure if that's even possible given the HDHR's hardware.

[QueOnda]

Originally Posted by LehighBri

I have a HVR-2250 but am quite frustrated with how slowly bug fixes/improvements have been rolled out for it. I used to have a HDHomeRun but got rid of it since it didn't support regular cable channels (it's QAM support was great though). Have they rolled out support for regular cable yet? Not sure if that's even possible given the HDHR's hardware.

It's not possible.

[pjpjpjpj]

Originally Posted by MeInMaui

I'm thinking about getting another HDHR, but I'm just coming down off of a tech buying binge. I feel a bit guilty, but I'll get over it.

Aloha,
Mike

Heh - I bought an HD200 just before Christmas and still haven't gotten it out of the box.

The biggest reason is that I had not had time to upgrade to 6.5, but I finally did yesterday, so I guess it's about time to give it a try.

The worst part was when something came up about it and my wife said "you already bought one?" "Yeah, I told you about it at the time." "I don't remember that." "It's sitting in the study next to the computer desk in the box, I told you about it." Thankfully, she didn't get too upset!

A third HDHR... hmmm... I don't think I could get away with that. We've only ever used all four tuners (from my current two) once ever... maybe I could sell the "we should have a backup in hand, in case one dies some day" line.

[toricred]

I can't believe you bought the HD200 and haven't used it. I really hope you didn't buy it in the first, very small, batch. That could certainly make some of us that were unable to get one of those a little irritated.

[pjpjpjpj]

Originally Posted by toricred

I can't believe you bought the HD200 and haven't used it. I really hope you didn't buy it in the first, very small, batch. That could certainly make some of us that were unable to get one of those a little irritated.

We already have two HD100s, which is all we currently need – family room (main) TV, and master bedroom TV. I bought the HD200 because we are expecting and will be adding a third TV in the nursery, so that, when the baby is awake at 3 am and wife wants to watch TV in there, she doesn’t have to watch middle-of-the-night infomercials, and can instead watch one of her pre-recorded shows. Someday down the road when the nursery is done being used, it will relocate to a basement big-screen (future dream). But until I get off my rear and run cable to the nursery, we really don’t need it, or have anywhere to put it (other than replacing an HD100)… but we will soon, and I wanted to get one while they are/were in stock.

And no, it was not from that small first batch.

And, of course, it’s always nice to have a backup unit in case one of the HD100s dies for some reason.

[mikesm]

I would go with an HDHomerun. Great support, the ability to do OTA and Clear QAM, and they are quite an innovative group. With a couple days of a post I made about the possiblilty of using DTA control channel info to map channels automatically, they wrote code to do just that and are now testing it with data from a real system.

I would expect the next beta software to include that mapping code. :-) See here:

http://www.silicondust.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6403