[mythtv-users] Alternate to PRV-250 / Lower cost card recommendations?

[Thomas M. Pluth]

> On Wednesday 20 October 2004 02:41 pm, Thomas M. Pluth wrote:
>>   There is a new card, the PVR-150, which will hit the market in the
>> next
>> couple weeks, however, it's not yet supported by ivtv.  It will be
>> cheaper than the PVR-250 (well under $100). If you're interested in
>> seeing this be supported soon, I'm taking up a collection to get one of
>> these cards as well as the new PVR-500 (A dual tuner PVR-250) for Chris
>> Kennedy, so he can add support to the drivers for them.
>>
>>   If you're interested in contributing, please email me off list and
>> I'll
>> let you know how to contribute.
>
> The problem with that is that these cards aren't similar to ivtv, AFAIK -
> they'll more likely be supported by the cx88-blackbird driver that's in
> the
> current v4l2 snapshots.
>
> Isaac
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  The information I've found so far on some of the windows PVR/MCE sites
indicate that they're very similar to the PVR-250/350 cards.  Same
encoder chip but different A/V processing chip (1 chip instead of 2). 
Chris seemed to think it would be do-able, and he is aware of what's
going on with the blackbird.