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To: Mike McFarland who wrote (171)	3/31/2007 2:12:14 PM
From: Mike McFarland	Read Replies (1) of 189

Update II: Tuning in digital over the air. Success! But digital TV free over the air doesn't look much better than the my analog cable--plus Comcast gives me a couple of good channels (Discovery and an extra PBS) for my $14 a month. In fact, running analog cable through my Sony VCR tuner is a hell of a lot simpler than involving a PC tuner. Of course if my HD monitor had a tuner, this never would have come up. Plus, the HDTV on my Pentium D 2.8 stuttered--a lot, no good. This is with an Radeon X600 video card and 256megs of video memory and a gig of system memory under XP MCE. I don't know which hardware is doing what, but that much stuff to do hdtv is absurd. Anyway, fun experiment but I took our antenna down and pulled the Hauppauge tuner out of my PC. Converting analog home movies... The next thing I will be goofing off with is putting some flavor of Linux on a new HDD I've ordered for the PC. I think my old DC10 plus MJPEG video converter card will work with various unix video tools and I can just walk away from the issues with Windows Media Center and Microsoft Movie Maker which hasn't yet worked for me. I may try the Hauppauge card again with Linux too if I see drivers for it. Try Gnoppix 5.1.1? Apparently you can get something called "Live DVD" and boot the whole system off of it. Cool!

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