Ok, so I have not posted here as much as I would like, but I have been doing a little work getting the OTA HDTV going utilizing the 2 USB DViCO HDTV tuners that I purchased a few months back.  I built an array of HD antennas using the included Philips HD antennas that came with the DViCO tuners as well as another I had from the POS ATI HDTV Wonder that I have sitting around.  That worked here in San Francisco a little bit, but the reception was not good enough for Windows MCE to tune them in consistently.

Enter the best HDTV antenna that I have come across. The Radio Shack HD antenna works like a champ.  At this point, I am able to get 95%+ signal on most of the local HD channels but am not able to tune in the KQED channels for some reason (even though they are supposedly located on Sutro Tower as most of the others are). I read the reviews on the Radio Shack site and was impressed. Then I spent a week waiting for one of the stores here in San Francisco to get one in stock. As soon as I plugged it into a one-to-two splitter, and then fed the outputs into the two tuners, I had 100% signal on most of the local HD channels and many other channels that did not have enough signal for MCE to tune in, now had plenty.  Now, if I can just figure out how to get kQED tuned in…better yet, why the hell doesn’t Microsoft make it so that we can use a cable card already to tune in cable supplied HD channels?

[tags]HDTV, MCE, HTPC, Microsoft, DViCO, OTA HD[/tags]

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