[mythtv-users] Which PVR Card

[drew einhorn]

On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Eloy Paris <peloy at chapus.net> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 03:12:13PM -0400, Dewayne Scott wrote:
>
> > I am new to MythTV so please forgive the newb question. I am in in the
> > process of building out a Fedora server for my MythTV install and I am
> > trying to decide on which PVR card to go with. With the advent of the FCC
> (
> > I am in the US) mandating digital signals. I need to pick out a PVR
> > card(prefer hauppauge) that supports digitial signals.I am not sure which
> > card to purchase.
>
> In addition to the insightful comments other have provided, I think you
> should take a look at this page:
>
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Category:Video_capture_cards


Also see:

   http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Video_capture_card

These two pages should be merged.

I'm looking 3 Hauppauge cards

HVR-2250
HVR-1800
HVR-1600

The HVR-1600 is the only one supported in the current release.
Is recording audio from the FM input supported?

Will the HVR-1800 support any PCI Express (PCIe) x1 features?
Or, will it just be a subset of the HVR-1600 features for a while?

Looks like the HVR-2250 is very similar to two HVR-1800 combined.
The pair of HVR-1800s have two FM receivers,
while the HR-2250 has only one.

Any guesstimates on how long until HVR-1800 and HVR-2250
are supported.  I'll probably just get a pair of HVR-1600 in the
meanwhile.

Going off on a tangent.

I don't have any QAM signals for the receivers,
but thinking about them led me to wondering
if there is a way I can create an unencrypted
QAM signal for distribution (over coax)
to my remote TVs.

-- 
Drew Einhorn
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