[mythtv-users] PVR-350 - Should I send it back?

[David Brieck Jr.]

Keep the card! You don't need to use the advanced features right now, but in 
the future you may well want to. Also, since you are just getting started 
with linux may I suggest Mandrake? I've been using linux for a few years now 
and I've always liked Mandrake. Plus, there are some great RPMs out there for 
MythTV on Mandrake. I was able to get Myth up and running in less than a week 
using dual PVR-250s (granted I knew what I was doing, but the RPMs made 
everything much easier)! 

On Monday 29 December 2003 09:07 am, Jason Giddens wrote:
>  Ok,
>
> For Christmas my wife was wonderful enough to buy me an Asus Pundit, CPU, M
>emory and a Hauppauge PVR-350.  I had given her the hardware list after read
>ing the Mythtv web page, and lurking on the list for a while.
>
> Now that I have gotten the devices, I am wondering if I should send in the 
>350 and get a PVR-250 instead.  Here is why I may want to:
>
> - I am a Linux Newbie-  I know there are excellent docs out there to help m
>e, but I am pretty much a rank beginner and the 350 seems like I need to be 
>a little more "leet" to handle it.
>
> - I want to watch Divx shows-  The main reason for the MythTv box is so tha
>t I can watch shows I download from BitTorrent on the big tv.  Secondary pur
>pose is to augment our Tivo.
>
> So.  I know that the 350's output is beautiful, but I also know that I will
> have to transcode the Divx files into MPEG2 everytime I want to watch them.
>
> What does the list think?
>
> Jason Giddens
> jgiddens_ at _ bigfoot_dot_com