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And CableCARDs are only $2 a month, no big deal. It's a big waste of space and would cost more than one of these tuners anyway. Given that my Ceton card shows up as a network device, it shouldn't be too different, but again, I've never tried it.Īny other suggestions? He was actually considering just buying a small TV and keeping that next to the computer (SD only) but that seems like a really dumb idea. just plug the HD HomeRun right into the Ethernet jack on the PC, possibly set it up with a matching IP to the HDHR if it doesn't do DHCP? I know it sorta defeats the purpose of "distributing HDTV through your network", but I'm already perfectly set up with my Ceton and would rather avoid possible lag issues anyway. PS - he uses wi-fi to connect to the router, so would it be possible (to avoid lag) to connect it in "crossover" mode. I just want to check before I ask him to buy something. Would the HD HomeRun Prime basically do the same thing as my InfiniTV, but over the whole network? So I could take that CableCARD in my Ceton tuner, stick it in there, plug it into the router, and my dad and I could BOTH access the same channels? That would be pretty awesome if it works that way. I know technically the Ceton card I have shows up as a network adapter, rather than a TV tuner - it has its own IP address and everything - but it's still connected to the one computer that's accessing it. so how do you actually watch and record the shows on your PC? What confuses me, though, is that it uses Ethernet rather than USB or PCI Express. The only other option I'm seeing is HD HomeRun - I've seen these things for sale at brick and mortar stores, and was wondering if it's a suitable option. Which was fine, until they decided to kill off WMC. I'm guessing it's due to the fact that it would cost a ton to authorize a CableCARD decoder, and since Microsoft obviously had the money and went ahead and did it, all these manufacturers are just piggy-backing off of them.
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However, Hauppauge, like Ceton and AMD/ATI, just tell you to use Windows Media Center for CableCARD content. I know Hauppauge makes something like the InfiniTV (it only does two or three channels at once, but that's fine for him) - and I still have my old ATI TV Wonder card from before Ceton made their tuners. I know there's a hack-y way of getting WMC back, but I'm not sure that's really the best idea, and it's possible future OS updates will disable/remove/cripple it anyway.
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I was telling him - normally I would say yes, get an InfiniTV, but since he's using Windows 10 it wouldn't do much good due to the lack of Windows Media Center. He was asking me when I was home for the holidays if he should buy a tuner like my capbox uses. Supposedly, it's possible to "rescan" the channels to find the new QAM addresses (they used to publish them on their site, but I guess they decided to stop doing that due to abuse or something), so my dad only gets a few channels at a time. Basically every couple months, that Hauppauge tuner becomes worthless.
Well, recently due to the increasing demand for HD, the cable company has been shutting off SD channels and using the bandwidth for HD channels, which are encrypted and won't work anymore. So we pay the monthly fee for our HD cable box in the basement where our HDTV is, and I also have a "capbox" that I built, using an InfiniTV 4 and Windows 7+WMC, where we pay another $2 or so a month for a CableCARD to put in it. Obviously there's no HD with that, but our cable company has typically been nice enough to offer the standard-definition feeds of cable channels unencrypted for subscribers. My dad is currently using one of these Hauppauge USB tuners (might be a similar but different model) to watch and record TV on his computer.
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