Clear QAM tuner recommendation

[danOO00]

I am looking to dump cable TV, and keep my cable internet service (comcast). This should allow me to still get basic analog/clear QAM signal in the house where I have my current pvr-250 tuners already set up to tune right off the cable. I want to add another card to tune the clear QAM and give me some network HD on Sage.


Question- what is the best option for a tuner card to capture the clear QAM signals from comcast? By best I mean - ability to tune to marginal strength channels/ease of setup, ease of sage integration -fewest headaches. I really dont care much about getting the possibly unencrypted premium channels, and constantly fiddling with lineups. All I want is the major networks which stay pretty much static (as seen on another TV I have hooked up to the cable currently.

Any experience or thoughts are appreciated- my searches of the forum has led me to the HVR-1600 or the HVR-2250.. not sure about the 2250 support in sage though.

Thanks
Dan

[Djc208]

The 1600 has been trouble free for me but others have had issues, can't speak to the 2250.

I think however you may want to consider the HD HomeRun. It's external vice internal but you'll find more people happy than unsatisfied, it's natively supported by Sage and provides two good tuners.

[PLUCKYHD]

Hdhomerun hands down. Keeps the heat out of the computer and works great.

here is a good deal on one
http://forums.slickdeals.net/showthr...ight=hdhomerun

[lotusvball]

HDHomerun, HDHomerun, HDHomerun.....

[QueOnda]

HDHR

[danOO00]

It seems the consensus is HDHR... Thanks for all the quick the replies- I will look into this solution.

Dan

[paulbeers]

I have both the HVR2250 and the HDHomerun. I prefer my HDHomerun since it has two imputs rather than a single input that is split. This allows me to use one input for QAM and one input for OTA (since a couple of my locals are not available un-encrypted on my cable system). My HVR2250 can only do one or the other, so I have it only doing QAM tuning. From a quality standpoint, both seem to tune just as well and I will be honest I think the setup of QAM tuning is just a bit easier on the HVR2250 (but in both cases QAM tuning is can be a bit tricky to setup)

Edit: I should state that even on Sale the HDHomerun is $30 more expensive than the HVR2250 and most of the time $50-60 so that can be a deterent.