2008-12-03, 11:31 PM
Hello All,
If you searched my posts in the past, you'd read of my troubles trying to get a DVR solution working for my Analog cable.
Long story short, I got it working pretty well and have been happy with it for the past few months. Some time passes and I catch the Black Friday bug and got the chance to get a great deal on a 32" LCD. It arrived today. I hooked it up to my current DVR rig (PVR-USB2 thru a 2.4ghz laptop - > svideo -> coax) and was less than impressed. I decided to eliminate the DVR out of the equation and went straight from the wall to the TV. Did a scan and couldnt believe my luck...
I must have picked up 25 or so digital channels. Beautiful HD video glistened across my screen. My smile grew. My cheap, basic analog cable is getting this awesome picture? It's almost hard for me to believe. There's only ONE problem...
In the past few months I've become addicted to EPG. I can live without recording capabilities, but not having an EPG is really inconvenient.
Technically, I could keep the laptop running into the TV via S-VIDEO and keep the actual cable signal through coax; changing inputs to navigate between the guide and the actual programming. However, thats obviously a messy solution. Anyone have any ideas? From what I've read, I could go ahead and get a HD HomeRun, but Im not certain my laptop can handle HD.. plus, I'd have to get an external video card, as my current video card only has S-VIDEO Out (which seemingly sucks to my TV).
Any guidance is appreciated!
If you searched my posts in the past, you'd read of my troubles trying to get a DVR solution working for my Analog cable.
Long story short, I got it working pretty well and have been happy with it for the past few months. Some time passes and I catch the Black Friday bug and got the chance to get a great deal on a 32" LCD. It arrived today. I hooked it up to my current DVR rig (PVR-USB2 thru a 2.4ghz laptop - > svideo -> coax) and was less than impressed. I decided to eliminate the DVR out of the equation and went straight from the wall to the TV. Did a scan and couldnt believe my luck...
I must have picked up 25 or so digital channels. Beautiful HD video glistened across my screen. My smile grew. My cheap, basic analog cable is getting this awesome picture? It's almost hard for me to believe. There's only ONE problem...
In the past few months I've become addicted to EPG. I can live without recording capabilities, but not having an EPG is really inconvenient.
Technically, I could keep the laptop running into the TV via S-VIDEO and keep the actual cable signal through coax; changing inputs to navigate between the guide and the actual programming. However, thats obviously a messy solution. Anyone have any ideas? From what I've read, I could go ahead and get a HD HomeRun, but Im not certain my laptop can handle HD.. plus, I'd have to get an external video card, as my current video card only has S-VIDEO Out (which seemingly sucks to my TV).
Any guidance is appreciated!