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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Inspect Your Gadgets > The HTPC Thread - Dont buy an HTPC

raditts: Feb 21, 2001; The Kwanzaa Bot is here to protect me.

Sorry if this has been mentioned before, but I've got a shuttle PC with a Hauppauge card that I've been using as a DVR / HTPC. I can't seem to pick up digital channels on it, but that's okay since most of what I watch is on analog cable anyway.

But I ordered FIOS TV service a couple weeks ago, and it's getting installed next Friday, and while the guy on the phone said that you can pick up the channels with analog, what he meant is that you can only pick up channels 1-20, which are only the local OTA channels.

So what I want to know is, is there any way to set things up so I can set my tuner to record some channel, but make it so it will change the channel on the converter box as well? I'm not sure if I'm explaining this the right way.

edit: I suppose I could use something like this
http://store.snapstream.com/usb-uirt.html

but then would that mean I need a different converter box for each of my tuners?

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