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   posted: Sep. 30, 2008 @ 9:34a
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Amazon has it on sale. Down from 169.99 and 169 or so at Newegg.

Go here to get it!

Dual Tuner ATSC QAM Network tuner
8-VSB (ATSC over-the-air digital TV)
QAM64/256 (unencrypted digital cable TV)
IR Receiver (signal PC with a standard remote control)
100baseTX high speed network
1 year warranty

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   posted: Sep. 30, 2008 @ 9:34a

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   posted: Sep. 30, 2008 @ 9:52a
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Wasn' this $130 couple of weeks ago? I would hit it at $130 !

   posted: Sep. 30, 2008 @ 10:01a
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I just purchased this item last week at the regular price (there were no deals at that time). I just sent Amazon an email for a price adjustment. Thanks OP.

   posted: Sep. 30, 2008 @ 10:05a
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It WAS $130, I just decided to get one to free myself of the cox HD-dvr. So, this is the best deal in about a week on it (that I could find). Knowing deals, it will be 125.00 next week though. lol

   posted: Sep. 30, 2008 @ 10:05a
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Austerville said:I just purchased this item last week at the regular price (there were no deals at that time). I just sent Amazon an email for a price adjustment. Thanks OP.

Amazon discontinued their price adjustment policy

   posted: Sep. 30, 2008 @ 10:22a
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I didn't know that they discontinued it - for some reason I thought that it was changed, not discontinued . Well, if they don't do the adjustment I'll just return it and rebuy. I think it would be in their best interest to just issue the credit.

   posted: Sep. 30, 2008 @ 10:46a
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how is this different than TiVo?

   posted: Sep. 30, 2008 @ 10:49a
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I would wait as well. I got this for 130.

   posted: Sep. 30, 2008 @ 10:58a
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yazooo said:how is this different than TiVo?

It's basically an external hdtv tuner. It does not have DVR functionality builtin. You would have to use this with MCE, MythTV, etc.

   posted: Sep. 30, 2008 @ 11:07a
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It WAS $129 about a month ago.. I thought about it too long and it went back up to $169 pretty quick. If you're gonna get it, don't wait too long.

   posted: Sep. 30, 2008 @ 11:23a
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this is a great little unit. I paid $170 about a year ago and couldn't be happier with it.

   posted: Sep. 30, 2008 @ 11:29a
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I just got the EyeTV 250 for my cable and mac mini (turned it into a media center). It works great but I'm not too fond of the EyeTV DVR software.

Would you guys recommend I return the EyeTV and get the HD Homerun? Dual tuners is tempting and the potential to use SageTV exists, no?

   posted: Sep. 30, 2008 @ 11:34a
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yazooo said:how is this different than TiVo?

You don't have to pay a subscription free to use this. I bought one (for $170 no less) and I couldn't be happier. I use mine to capture OTA HD content with Vista Media Center and the picture is phenomenal for football games.

   posted: Sep. 30, 2008 @ 11:41a
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actually when you price out mce vs TiVo it works out to be the same.

TiVo + lifetime = ~$550 mce + pc + hdhomerun = ~$600

   posted: Sep. 30, 2008 @ 11:43a
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So this device doesn't connect to your Mac/PC via USB (like the EyeTV 250)? You have to run it through your network? Any display jaggies on a 42" HDTV? A network cable running through your router on the network doesn't seem like the optimal route for a high quality display.

BTW, my HDTV is just a monitor - doesn't have a tuner. Will this work?

Also, anyone know if the remote is better than the junk Elgato includes with the EyeTV 250?

   posted: Sep. 30, 2008 @ 12:27p
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coolbreeze said:A network cable running through your router on the network doesn't seem like the optimal route for a high quality display.

I think the specs for a network cable are higher bandwidth than the USB ports some HD Tuners go through. Heck phone cables dont sound like a big pipe for DSL, but you can get 6-12Mb service through those even these days.

I don't have mine yet, but all reviews are good and looks like it actually works as advertised, and wont hog all your CPU cycles like several other tuners do.

   posted: Sep. 30, 2008 @ 12:35p
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HDTV is generally broadcast at 18-20mb/s and as high at 30. It will do just fine transferring over a 100mb switch.

   posted: Sep. 30, 2008 @ 1:14p
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I use mine with BeyondTV, works great. You do need to buy it though, one time cost for it and for all upgrades in the 4.x line. They're doing a $200 bundle with the software and the HDHomeRun. The software is usually $70 so that makes the unit $130, free shipping.

   posted: Sep. 30, 2008 @ 3:12p
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