So I’ve hit my first major snag with my Mythbox. The signal is… less than acceptable. It’s like watching a DVD that’s been skimmed along sand paper. On top of that it doesn’t pick up channel 10 at all when scanning for channels. There’s an option on my Nova T 500 to turn on amplification, LNA Activation is what it’s called. This is turned on, but it doesn’t seem to effect much. I’m half hoping it’s the aerial port that I’m using, there’s a chance it’s not the quality it should be. I’ll have to grab a set top box and sort that one out. Other than that the only real thing I need to set up is the remote, and the VFD. I also need to get a wireless card for it, and I want to eventually install a bit torrent client to it, but other than that, she’s apples. If I can’t fix the signal issues I think I’ll have to plonk the tuner on to eBay and find myself another one. Which is annoying, the functionality and quality of it when it works is great, it’s HD for a start, and it’s a dual tuner with one aerial port, which aren’t real easy to find. I’ve got some googling to do.

