[mythtv-users] AM2 Motherboard with PCI slots galore

[Chad]

On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 10:14 AM, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
>
> Chad wrote:
>  > On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 9:39 AM, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
>  >> Chad wrote:
>  >>
>  >>  > How about good ol Hauppauge?  They have the HVR-1800 that is a hybrid
>  >>  > Digital/Analog card and is supposedly going to be working in 2.6.25...
>  >>
>  >>  Hybrid units are an "either/or" proposition at this point, I think. You
>  >>  would have to unload modules and reload a different set to change modes.
>  >>
>  >>  It seems to be poor economics to buy a unit and then use only half of
>  >>  it, but I guess the price is low enough...
>  >>
>  >>  beww
>  >
>  > From what I've read, that's not true.  It's basically the same as
>  > having 2 different cards in your box, it's a "both at the same time"
>  > ordeal.  The modules are different, but that doesn't mean they both
>  > can't be loaded at the same time.  In addition, they are relatively
>  > cheap for what they offer.
>
>  OK. I was using old info, about the HD-3000 cards long ago. If the
>  situation has improved that's great.
>
>  Does the 1800 have hardware compression for analog mode (obviously
>  digital is already compressed).
>
>
>
>  beww
>  _______________________________________________

Yes it does, the lower (1200 I think?) model doesn't, it's a frame
grabber / digital card.  The HVR-1800 that is a PCI Express x1 card
has a digital tuner / analog tuner that is a "hardware mpeg2" tuner
(similar to the PVR-150's).

-Chad