[mythtv-users] PVR 250 vs. ATI TV WONDER VE

Jason Radford jasonml at iconimaging.net
Thu Jul 17 22:31:22 EDT 2003


On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 21:34:35 -0400 (EDT)
"Steven J. Festa" <steve at spidermite.net> wrote:

> I know the PVR 250 has a hardware encoder, but is it worth the money? Is
> going to increase the performance substantially? I currently use the ATI
> TV WONDER VE. If it does increase the performance, can I get away with a
> 500 Mhz processer for a frontend,backend box?

On straight analog Time Warner cable I noticed a much sharper picture
with the PVR 250 over the TV Wonder  both watching tv and recording,
plus with standard mpeg2 output (one less format to transcode to svcd)
I would recommend it.

-Jason


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