[mythtv-users] Are PVR-500's safe to buy new right now?

Andrew Davis andrew at nccomp.com
Fri Oct 6 19:47:59 UTC 2006


I bought one three weeks ago and it works just fine... running Myth .20 
on FC5

Troy Smith wrote:
> k, so I have a myth box almost all set up and ready to go.  Only thing 
> is, I only have a pcHDTV 3000 card in there, so no cable, and I want 
> more than one tuner anyways.  What I'd really like to get is a 
> PVR-500, but after all the recent noise concerning the tuners in them, 
> I can't pull the trigger.
>
> So, what's the current status of the PVR-500's with the new tuners? 
> Are they safe to use? I can buy an amplifier if that fixes the issues, 
> but I haven't seen anything conclusively saying that'd be the case.
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