All DTV in USA as of June 15th

[agent2002]

I realize that this is probably no surprise as people have been following the mess here in the USA over OTA DTV but as of last Friday, Analog - good old NTSC is no longer being broadcast commercially speaking.

I have a surplus of PCs that I have built and used for a gaming LAN, but now the youngens have gone off to college with laptops and I'm thinking about cannibilizing these PCs and making at least one decent HTPC out of them.

Should I get two DTV capture cards for recoding one channel while watching another or ...

Does GBPVR do all I want or do I need Windows Media Center or is there a better Linux product?

Thanks

[imagn]

Does GBPVR do all I want or do I need Windows Media Center or is there a better Linux product?

Thanks

Well i guess that depends on what you want, and what your entire setup will be, GBPVR is a great Media Center application and will most likely do everything you want it to do, it does for me

I have one analog cable feed, and 2 digital feeds that capture digital cable that free and in the clear, mostly the major networks (QAM cable)

I have tested with OTA digital and it all works well, i have a client pc in the living room and it works well. The only part it can take a little to set up correctly, but there is a fairly active forum for answering your questions

[Snooze]

That is why we are all here, it is cuz we love GBPVR! Regardless, if all you are using is OTA, then yes you will need a dual DVB card(s) to watch while record, unless you can record on the same frequency, then you can watch on time shift on one card. If you are using combo OTA and cable provider, you will need an analog card or combination card also.

[willyperkins]

If your are considering two tuners, and you already have your lan setup, you might want to consider the HD Home Run. It has two tuners built in, and streams the video over the network (min 100Mbps). Also will be able to get the Clear QAM if you already have at least basic cable (as well as OTA). I looked at a few commerical options, and really GBPVR is the best there is.