Tuner Recommendations?

[Fuzzy]

No, the prime does not do any conversion. It simply transfers the captured stream directly to the server.

[BobPhoenix]

Originally Posted by TheraEdge

I tried to look that up in the instructions and manuals for the prime, but I couldn't find anything that said it would handle clear QAM or could be used without a cable card. You guys are sure about that? Someone is actually using one in that way right now?

I did to get my locals for a year or so until the cable company put filters on the line so that I could no longer get QAM on my 3 primes or my 3 HDHR3' a few months back. I only buy internet from them but they left the locals accessible over QAM so I used it since the reception was better than I got OTA. The primes worked well and gave me three QAM tuners each on multiple servers until the filters were installed. Never had a cable card installed in any of the primes but was intending to add it until I was downsized out of a job.

[Monedeath]

The Primes do stream High Def, they just use whatever encoding the cable company provided it in, usually mpg2.

[TheraEdge]

Just ordered a Prime off Amazon today. It was on sale for $100 so hard to say no at that point. So I'll have to follow up on the PrimeNetEncoder then and see if I can be ready with that.

Thanks again for everyone for all the help and comments.

[TheraEdge]

OK, well, this was my only concern. I don't seem to be smart enough to get this thing setup and running. :P

I put up a new post since a response in here might not get to much notice.
Need some help getting started with an HDHomeRun Prime & QAM
http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/show...513#post581513