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<blockquote data-quote="etnpnys" data-source="post: 34084" data-attributes="member: 17966">re: TunerWell, see, the funny thing is that I don't actually even have a TV Tuner in the system. I'm a DirecTV guy. ...And I honestly wouldn't give up my TiVo for anything. Love it. Now, I understand that I can go and put a tuner in the system, use a stand-alone Sat receiver and use an IR emitter coming out of the PC going to the receiver to control its channel changing and what-not, but that's not gonna give me:1: S-Video out for standard def programs and 2: (most importantly) 2-TUNER capability. No way will I be stuck with only one tuner being able to record something. I almost need 4 tuners sometimes, and I DON'T EVEN WATCH TV!!! I watch Lost, The Office, and football games. There's the occasional thing that comes on about football and Lost at the same time, hence the 2-tuner need.Anyway, I actually do have a TV Tuner, but it's an old Hauppauge (don't even know the model) that only has RF in (coax). I might throw it in the system when I get cable for my internet/some TV, but for right now, the HTPC is a DVD playing, game playing, file serving, media serving machine. ...But I still need a friggin remote. I think I'm gonna look more into that Creative one that somebody mentioned earlier... I think I found that thing on Froogle for like $6...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="etnpnys, post: 34084, member: 17966"] [b]re: Tuner[/b] Well, see, the funny thing is that I don't actually even have a TV Tuner in the system. I'm a DirecTV guy. ...And I honestly wouldn't give up my TiVo for anything. Love it. Now, I understand that I can go and put a tuner in the system, use a stand-alone Sat receiver and use an IR emitter coming out of the PC going to the receiver to control its channel changing and what-not, but that's not gonna give me: 1: S-Video out for standard def programs and 2: (most importantly) 2-TUNER capability. No way will I be stuck with only one tuner being able to record something. I almost need 4 tuners sometimes, and I DON'T EVEN WATCH TV!!! I watch Lost, The Office, and football games. There's the occasional thing that comes on about football and Lost at the same time, hence the 2-tuner need. Anyway, I actually do have a TV Tuner, but it's an old Hauppauge (don't even know the model) that only has RF in (coax). I might throw it in the system when I get cable for my internet/some TV, but for right now, the HTPC is a DVD playing, game playing, file serving, media serving machine. ...But I still need a friggin remote. I think I'm gonna look more into that Creative one that somebody mentioned earlier... I think I found that thing on Froogle for like $6... [/QUOTE]

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