Voip teleophony - Anyone know Packet-8 or others?

Neil Schelly neil at jenandneil.com
Wed Dec 14 10:37:59 EST 2005


> I was thinking of building a MythTV box with multiple tuner cards, one
> for cable and one for OTA HD broadcasts (why pay for something which
> is just flying through the air and waiting for a net to be stuck out
> to catch it :)

I have little or no experience with HD, so take this for what it's worth. 
If you live in a place that doesn't get good reception OTA, then don't
bother.  I was at a friends house recently who was showing off his new
HDTV and switched among a few channels showing very pretty pictures.

That said, his reception was poor. So when he flipped to certain stations,
the picture would occasionally hang for a second or two or become very
pixelated and then catch up.  He flipped on a football game to showcase
the sports value and only one audio track was playing.  The commentator
was speaking on the screen, but that whole audio track was just missing.

He said this was pretty typical of HD broadcasts where they were and they
were still waiting to get their cable hookup for HD to fix it.
-N





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