Re: Daily Frustrations when being a HTPC enthusiast

The one thing that jumped out at me was that he “added” the Ceton card to an existing configuration.  When I installed my Ceton card it was on a fresh install of Win 7.  I had both USB ATSC tuners (four HP models) and a HDHomeRun.  I opted not to use the HDHR in my setup and things went smoothly.  I did run into a few issues but it turned out to be bad drivers or some other such thing that I eventually worked out.  I’m sure I have way too much crap installed on my HTPC but so far things are running relatively well.

I had to laugh about the wife comment because I went through the same thing with my wife in an attempt to replace her cable box with a media extender.  Needless to say I gave up and hooked the STB back up to her TV and she’s been (relatively) happy ever since.  I still hear occasional gripes when the TV in the family room has issues (these are usually resolved by resetting the extender or switching inputs on the TV).

If anyone can be called a tuner whore it has to be me.  Besides the four Ceton tuners I also have four ATSC tuners connected to my HTPC.  However, when you consider that the tuners are shared between the HTPC and three extenders it really isn’t all that many.