Need help choosing a device

[sethm1]

Also sounds like a pc needs to be connected to the HD PVR, an option I don't have.

Seems the Broadway may be it.
But to also check tonite with the cable plugged directly into the tv. The one bummer is it only has one tuner. I have a Ethernet cable at this tv which I laid along the wall to my Router last month when I put in new hardwood floor. But this tv is not my main tv. If i connect the Broadway to my main tv in my entertainment center, it would have to be wireless. So hoping my home wifi is good enough that there will be no buffering. I am thinking that another option is buying a power line Ethernet adapter, but then the house is 39 years old and not sure how good the electrical system is.

[foxwood]

If i connect the Broadway to my main tv in my entertainment center, it would have to be wireless. So hoping my home wifi is good enough that there will be no buffering. I am thinking that another option is buying a power line Ethernet adapter, but then the house is 39 years old and not sure how good the electrical system is.

Why would you connect the Broadway to the TV? From my reading of the product page on the Hauppauge site, the Broadway doesn't even output a video signal that the TV would see.

Assuming you've got unencrypted TV signals, you just plug the Broadway into your Cable wherever you have both a spare ethernet port and a spare Cable hookup. In your case, where you're not actually interested in streaming, the spare ethernet port isn't that critical, because a wifi-connection is probably sufficient for connecting to the device to configure it and set up your recordings, and it can save it's output directly to your iFlashdrive.

That's my understanding based on a cursory read on the Hauppauge website anyway. It's certainly implied that the Broadway can be used standalone, without being connected to a PC.

http://www.hauppauge.com/site/products/ ... adway.html

[sethm1]

Sorry meant that the Broadway would be connected to the DVR. Not the tv itself.

And good point about the wi-fi aspect. If saving the recordings to the USB drive, then not worried about buffering.

[barnabas1969]

The Broadway device has a built-in clear QAM (and ATSC) tuner. If your channels are not copy-protected, you will only need to connect the Broadway device to your coax cable. It has inputs so that it can receive signals from your cable box too, but only in standard definition (not HD). Also, it says that it will record to flash drive, but it doesn't say if the file it produces is in a proprietary format or not.

[foxwood]

Sorry meant that the Broadway would be connected to the DVR.

If it's connected to a DVR, you can only record what the DVR is currently displaying. To get scheduled recordings, rather than manually recording what you're watching, you'll have to connect directly to the cable (or an antenna), not the DVR.

[foxwood]

By the way, when I refer to "scheduled recordings", I'm guessing that that means "record Channel X for 1 hour at 10PM on Tuesday night", rather than "Record Program-Name", though it's certainly possible that they could maintain a reasonable schedule database "in the cloud" and let you pick your schedule from that.

[erkotz]

Keep in mind that many operators will be encrypting the OTA channels in the near future, so I generally would discourage people from buying new ClearQAM tuners

[sethm1]

Update-
Removed the cable from the Cox DVR and plugged into my TV.
Able to get channels 2 to 13, which is all really looking for.

[mdavej]

I'm surprised its so few. Did you re-scan for digitals?

[sethm1]

No did not try any digitalis.
On the plus side was more than when I hooked up an antenna last year.