[mythtv-users] Compelling drop-in replacement for PVR-350?

[Chris Farris]

AFAIK, they are only dropping direct support for the PVR350 in mythTV
itself. The ivtv-fb method of watching TV will still be supported.

Chris

On 3/23/06, Jesse Adelman <someone at boldandbusted.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all. In light of the recent (and on-going) discussions about the
> possible drop in support for PVR-350 output, I'm wondering what you,
> who value high quality SD captures and output, have gone with instead?
>
> Here's what I like about the 350:
>
> * All S-Video, both input and output, if so desired. Great color
> trueness and sharpness - even text looks decent. At even 1.2GB/hr, very
> high quality captures, with minimal pixilization - though for shows
> requiring high detail (think of shows with lots of sandstorms -
> anything with large gradients of color/brightness and fast movement),
> 3GB/hr+ is recommended.
> * Minimal main CPU usage.
> * Ready-for-DVD storage format (no transcoding needed).
> * High fidelity to original input signal.
> * Soon will have fully in-kernel open source driver (ivtv getting
> there).
> * PCI card (would love to know about an AGP equivalent, tho).
> * Includes decent remote
>
> My box is a Shuttle SN41G2V2. Yes, it has a Nvidia GF4 MX 440 S-video
> out. Yes, the output quality sucks on that - areas with black colors
> are not black, but dark grey, there's modeline problems (no 720x480),
> etc. - however, I haven't tried it out with recent NVidia drivers.
>
> Thanks for your input. And thanks for MythTV.
>
> Cheers,
> Jesse Adelman
> San Francisco, CA USA
> Fun: http://www.ilikelinux.com/
>
>
>
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