[mythtv-users] Re: Any reason for PVR-350 over 250?

Kevin Kuphal kuphal at dls.net
Thu Jul 15 16:36:43 EDT 2004


John Smith wrote:

>>>So, any reason(s) to choose a pvr-350 instead of a
>>>pvr-250?
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>>1) It produces the very best picture quality for TV
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>playback.
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>Could you quantify it a little? ;) Is picture quality
>with other cards/on-board video (like the Geforce 440
>MX) more blurry, etc.?
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>>2) Nearly zero cpu overhead for TV playback, which
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>is nice if you're using a
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>>rather slow box for a frontend (like an EPIA, which
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>is what I'm doing). 
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>I'm still trying to figure out the differences between
>backends and frontends. The pvr-350 would go in a
>frontend, and therefore none of its capturing
>capabilities would be used (since the backend does
>that)?
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You can run the backend and frontend programs (mythbackend/mythfrontend) 
on the same computer.  Just each process does a different job.  The 
backend records and the frontend displays (to put it in simplistic terms).

Kevin



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