[mythtv-users] PVR-500 w/ samsung tuners?

Daniel Agar daniel at agar.ca
Fri Jun 8 00:55:27 UTC 2007


> Hello,
>
> I'm currently thinking of buying a PVR-500. I've read a lot of the
> troublesome Samsung tuners and would like to avoid buying one of them.
> So I have a choice of two cards now. One reads "Rev D591" (made 2004)
> and the other "Rev E591" (made 2005). So my question is this: does any
> of these cards have the Samsung tuners? ...or is there any other
> problems with these revisions? Which one should I choose?
>
> I can't find any information on the revisions by googling.
>
> Regards Seb
>
I don't think your going to find much based on those revision numbers.
Mine is  E787 and has samsung tuners. Its actually working Ok now, but I
had to play with the cable attenuation for awhile. I'd go for the oldest
one available, which has the greatest chance of having the phillips
tuners.



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