Best Terrestrial/OTA HDTV setup for an apartment

Best Terrestrial/OTA HDTV setup for an apartment 0

Submitted by thesandbender on Saturday August 16 2008, @11:08AM

thesandbender writes "I don't watch TV but keep an HTPC for watching movies. One of my relatives is very ill and I'll have a lot of family rotating through my apartment and I'd like to have a little more entertainment. I'm running Vista MCE and bought a Hauppauge HVR-1800 with a DB8 HDTV antenna and I've used AntennaWeb to point the DB8 in the best direction. The results have been terrible and I'm looking for recommendations/suggestions for hardware and setup. I am on the first floor of a three story apartment building and I can't mount any external antennas (I know this is a major issue). Thankfully almost all the transmitters are located in the same place so a good, compact directional antenna might be effective. And please ... no platform bashing ... they all have their issues (I have a lot of h.264 encoded files... hardware/GPU acceleration on Linux is very, very limited at the moment)."

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