I've been using my Ceton turner card for a while now and its been pretty nice. Being able to DVR multiple shows and once is very nice. The only problem I've had so far, is that some channels will not tune some times.
tl;dr - Tuning adapters case 99% of the problems
I wake up in the morning with a notice that it wasn't able to record my sons cartoon because the channel couldn't be found. To Cetons credit it is NOT their fault. Its actually Time Warner's fault. They use SDV (switch digital video) on a lot of their channels. To receive SDV channels Time Warner gives you a "tuning adapter". Its a small box that plugs into your computer through USB and your cable line. The computer queries the tuner adapter for the frequency of a given channel and the tuning adapter does it magic and tells the computer where it can find the channel. The problem is these adapters seem to have MANY, MANY problems. Some times they don'y sync up to the cable company and suddenly you can not use half of your channels.
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