What's the difference between M.I.T. MyHD MDP-120 and DVIC..

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To add my original post. I live in Borough Park, Brooklyn, New York
City if that matters. Two-story house. Which antenna would be good
for off-the-air DTV purpose?

On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 19:57:15 GMT, notlogin <notlogin@times.com> wrote:

>Both are at
>http://www.ramelectronics.net/html/hdtv-cards.html?OVRAW=HDTV%20tuner%20card%20PC&OVKEY=hdtv%20tuner%20card%20pc&OVMTC=standard
>
>One is for $290 and one is for $174.95. It looks to me both can allow
>me get DTV on my computer with the help an roof-top antenna. What's
>the difference? Are there other products that can bring DTV to my PC?

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Sonic (ergoacess@yahoo.com) wrote in alt.tv.tech.hdtv:
> With the daughter card, your cost is 349.00 for a MyHD to be able to use a
> slower computer.

You don't need the DVI daughter-card unless you want DVI.

> > In addition, the MyHD card can output either VGA or component video, so
> > you don't need a dongle/transcoder to display on a regular HDTV.
> >
> The Fusion uses your existing video card. Dongles and cables are standard
> HTPC requirements.

Gee, why do I get along without them, then?

> > Third, the MyHD card has a built-in SP/DIF (digital audio) output.
> >
> The Fusion will use your existing sound card

Define "use". If you can't get digital sound out, what good is it?

> > Sixth, the MyHD card will play back DVDs using the built-in hardware
> > MPEG decoder *and* scale the output to 480p, 720p, or 1080i. The scaler
> > on the MyHD card is far better than the ones included on *any* video card.
> > Now, you do need something like AnyDVD to allow playback of CSS-encoded
> > discs, but that software is worth it for a lot of other reasons.
>
> Software DVD players have features that some enjoy also, such as zoom
> player.

Software scaling and de-interlacing leave something to be desired *unless*
you can get all the tweaks down. MyHD is plug and play.

> Well here we get to the standard your mileage may vary.

Not much, it won't.

> Will the MyHD or
> Fusion software/hardware work without issues for any given setup is not
> a given.

Yes, it is. The Fusion won't record scheduled recordings correctly on
almost every setup. It also is damn near impossible to get digital audio
output to work.

> People can and have had issues with both cards and there is no
> given that one will afford you trouble free installation and operation.
> I have a Fusion II and the setup was easy and records fine in my setup.

"Easy setup" and "Fusion II" don't belong in the same sentence. After
plugging in the MyHD card, I could enter "34" and it would tune to CBS-HD
here with no config. This doesn't work on the Fusion. You *must* tell
it which channels are available, either manually or through an auto-scan
that doesn't work very often.

Then, let's talk about scheduled recordings. Say you created one for "Law
& Order" on Wednesday from 10-11pm (ET). Then, one week there is a special
2-hour show starting at 9pm. Can you edit the existing recording to just
start at 9pm and last 2 hours? With MyHD, yes. With Fusion, no.

Also, every single thing but scheduling new recordings can be done with
the MyHD remote. You *must* use the Windows interface to change almost
every setting.

Again, I got my Fusion II for free, and I still feel like I didn't get my
money's worth.

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