[mythtv-users] Current wisdom on PVR-150/250/350/500

Sam Varshavchik mrsam at courier-mta.com
Sun Apr 16 14:31:12 UTC 2006


Jeff Simpson writes:

>> In this post: <http://mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2006-April/132083.html>
>> Jeff Simpson states "Don't buy a PVR-350 for any purpose."
>> Jeff, if you are reading this, can you elaborate?
> 
> Everybody says the PVR-350 is great. It is. It's just not worth it
> anymore. If I could go back and do it again I'd buy a 150 and an
> NVidia card with TV Out (if anybody wants to trade, I'd love to)

When Nvidia's hardware is supported by free software, I'll buy this myself.

> The framebuffer is a different beast altogether. If you are going to
> be only using the framebuffer X output, you can compare that output to
> an Nvidia output as follows:
> 
> PVR-150 + Nvidia card > PVR-350 
PVR-350 is willing to hack at it.

PVR-150 + Nvidia card binary drivers for some business reason, you'll have a very nice doorstop on 
your hands.


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