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I saw a recumbent trike when I left work today. It was coming from farther south in the office park. I'm still seeing a bike in the garage at work most days, but there have been 3 different bikes - but never more than one any day.
The HDTV tuner for the MythTV system arrived today. I don't know how soon I'll get it connected and configured. It's a dual tuner, and it wants 2 more antenna connections. There's already a 4-way split to feed the TV, the first (std-def) Myth tuner, the ReplayTV, and the cable modem, and I had to juggle things around to get a reliable signal to the modem. I'm worried about having an inadequate signal if things go farther. I may need to get an amplifier. An HD tuner will let us get 2 more local public-TV channels that Comcast doesn't provide in analog any more, a bunch of secondary channels from stations that do have an analog feed of their primary, and a raft of stations that never made the analog cut. This tuner can't get the encrypted channels, but we never had a set-top box for them anyway. It will get the same channels the (HD)TV can get on its own.
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The HDTV tuner for the MythTV system arrived today. I don't know how soon I'll get it connected and configured. It's a dual tuner, and it wants 2 more antenna connections. There's already a 4-way split to feed the TV, the first (std-def) Myth tuner, the ReplayTV, and the cable modem, and I had to juggle things around to get a reliable signal to the modem. I'm worried about having an inadequate signal if things go farther. I may need to get an amplifier. An HD tuner will let us get 2 more local public-TV channels that Comcast doesn't provide in analog any more, a bunch of secondary channels from stations that do have an analog feed of their primary, and a raft of stations that never made the analog cut. This tuner can't get the encrypted channels, but we never had a set-top box for them anyway. It will get the same channels the (HD)TV can get on its own.
[This entry was originally posted as http://syntonic-comma.dreamwidth.org/349486.html on Dreamwidth (where there are
comments).]