Just ordered two HD-3000 cards from www.pchdtv.com

12/24/2004 marc 4 comments

Well, I took the plunge. I recently purchased two HD-3000 Hi Definition Television PCI Cards from www.pchdtv.com. I will be setting up MythTV with the two tunners to make my own PVR. It has more features than TiVo and is not as restrictive as TiVo has become over the years. There are more features and add-ons for MythTV and the scheduling comes for free from various online tv scheduling guides on the net. It is also completely OpenSourced which is a definite plus as far as servicability, hackability and extendability go.

The company is a local company and so I like to support them but in addition to that, they first and foremost produce drivers for Linux, then Windows. It’s nice to support a company that thinks like I do … 8^)

They have a deal for Utah based Linux user groups. They give a discount for members – it was discussed in a SLLUG meeting on MythTV presented by Brandon Beattie

Brandon has also written a very good HOWTO document on setting up Home Theater PC (HTPC) on Linux. It contains a lot of information on how to set up PVR software, hardware for very flexable and extendable home entertainment and media setups using Linux.

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Written by Erik about 7 years ago. Reply

Hey, did you ever get this set up? I’ve been thinking a lot about trying one of these out for myself and was wondering how the project was progressing?
Written by marc about 7 years ago. Reply

Not yet. I have to move some services off http://www.mecworks.com which will then be repurposed as my MythTV box. It is supposed to be a great card and they recently just dropped the price from what I hear. Once all my services are off mecworks.com and onto virtual0.mecworks.com, I’ll be able to make my MythTV backend. I have two HD-3000 Hi Definition Television PCI Cards and two Hitachi 250GB drives that I’ll through in the box (it’s a dual Celeron 300) which should be enough to be a backend for Myth since the HD streams are mpeg and don’t need to be encoded – just written to the disk. I have a small Shuttle box with a 3.0 GHz P4 and an nVidia 5700LE that will be my frontend.
Written by Michael about 7 years ago. Reply

For what it’s worth, I’m in the process of installing SuSE 9.3 with an HD-3000 card. The first thing I found was that SuSE identified it as a Winfast 2000 card, loaded cx88 modules, and then completely failed to run X. I’m using a nVidia GX5200 graphics card. When I removed the HD-3000, X worked. So now I’m going to install the recommended drivers for the card, stick it back in it’s PCI slot, and hope the conflict doesn’t recur.

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Written by marc about 7 years ago. Reply

I tried to install 9.3 last night on my to be MythTV front end box and couldn’t get X to work at all in 720p. I have a nVidia 5700LE and installed the nVidia drivers also but thoes wouldn’t work either. I have several 9.3 boxes at work that are great – no issues. It appears that x.org isn’t quite ready for either the nVidia 5700LE or 720p. Let me know if you get it working. I think I’ll have to re-install 9.2 for the time being until x.org will support my setup.

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Just ordered two HD-3000 cards from www.pchdtv.com

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