[mythtv-users] Hauppauge PVR Questions

Steve Adeff adeffs at gmail.com
Thu Jan 12 01:55:17 UTC 2006


On Wednesday 11 January 2006 16:40, f-myth-users at media.mit.edu wrote:
>     > Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 14:31:36 -0500
>     > From: "Michael T. Dean" <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>
>     >
>     > The 150 is a better card (it even has a potential to give a better
>     > picture quality than the 250) and saves you money.
>
> bmayland (CC'ed) started a thread on 15 June 2005 showing dramatic
> differences in sharpness between the two cards, with the 250 winning.
> He also said he'd do some more experimentation; Bryan, did you come
> up any any further results?  (I'm particularly interested in RF-in,
> but I also use composite-in.)
>
> Also, ivtv can't do NTSC sliced VBI closed-captioning on the 150/500
> yet, because Hans and the rest of the ivtv crew haven't been able to
> reverse-engineer that part so far.  The 250/350 do it just fine.
>
> (If the sharpness and CC differences between the 250/350 series and
> the 150/500 series get resolved, then my next purchase will be a 500,
> but until then, I'm going to waste PCI slots and get 250's since
> they'll work better for me.  Assuming, of course, they're still being
> made at that point---I sure hope so.)

is the sharpness issue with the tuner or do the svideo/component inputs have 
the same issue?

-- 
Steve


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