Hey,
I'm only asking this question because I have a cheap USB 2.0 ATSC tuner that
seems to have issues with 3rd party Antenna's. I've tried plugging a Radio
Shack 50Db gain atenna into this tuner and ended up with the tuner claiming
to not get signal at all, and then I tried a RCA antenna (unpowered) that I
picked up at walmart. The RCA antenna got good signal strength as far as the
MC Signal strength app was concerned, but trying to watch video you'd get 1
Frame per couple seconds and no audio.
I'm starting to think the signal from these antenna's may perhaps have over
powered the small tuner some how. It seems to work OK with the packaged
antenna, except it can't receive the vast majority of OTA signals (hence I
wanted something with a bit of signal gain to it).
Right now I don't care all that much because I get fox hd and cbs HD which
are the only two channels I record stuff off of, and also (very importantly)
I subscribe to TWC cable and for my main TV viewing I use a Scientific
Atlantic DVR provided by TWC. However, once I get a bit more settled in and
actually buy a home (a goal I'm trying to reach with in the next 12 months)
one thing I would like to do is ditch the scientific atlantic, get a media
center PC with ATI cable card tuner and use that as my main DVR. I would
then watch content on my TV via extender (right now, x-box 360). One reason
why I'm liking this idea so much is because in the future I'll be buying a
better HD TV + HT set up, and I'll probably religate my current HT as a
secondary system. So being able to have centralized TV would be good.
Anyway, in order to help alliviate some tuner pressure, my idea is to
install at leats 1 dual tuner PCI-E TV card, which I imagine my self hooking
up to something like a bigger airial attached to my house. If these small
antenna's with gain over power a PC tuner (if this is the case), I'm pretty
sure the bigger antenna certainly would. Any one else have this kind of set
up? Any thoughts?
Carlo
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