[mythtv-users] Hauppauge! Pvr-150 Support for MythTv Project?

Daniel Agar daniel at agar.ca
Tue Jun 5 20:15:55 UTC 2007


> Daniel Agar wrote:
>> Personally I would avoid the PVR 500 right now, as the new samsung
>> tuners
>> they currently use are terrible.
>>
> About a year ago, I was forced to replace my PVR 500.  Then I read about
> the Samsung tuners and decided to hold off.
>
> As I recall, Hauppauge got an earful and went back to the Philips
> tuners.  At least when I finally did order the replacement, it had
> Philips tuners on it [Philips FQ1236A MK4 (idx 92, type 57)] and works
> wonderfully.  Unless they've gone back AGAIN to the Samsungs in the past
> few months, the PVR 500 should be safe.
>
I bought mine about 2 months ago from canadacomputers.com. Its revision
E787 and most definitely has samsung tuners and terrible quality. Actually
one tuner is not bad (not as good as a pvr150) and the other is nearly
unwatchable.



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