[mythtv-users] Always use the HD PVR and retire my PVR 250, or continue to use both in same recording group

[Matt Goebel]

On 6/24/2010 7:02 PM, James Maclaren wrote:
> I have just recently bought an HDPVR - wished I had known they would 
> be on sale - everything is working fine. I have a PVR 250 as well 
> currently on the same feed for SD shows from directv.  Both the hdpvr 
> and pvr 250 are in the same recording group.  My question is, should I 
> just record everything on component to the hdpvr or keep the current 
> configuration.  What are other users doing? How will the quality/size 
> be of sd recordings compare to that of the pvr 250 recorded in 480i 
> through s-video?  I have my directv box set to ouput 720p which is the 
> resolution of my hdtv.
> Thanks for any advice.
> James
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Ultimately you have to ask yourself do you REALLY want to watch any SD 
content anymore?  I know I don't.  Except for a handful of obscure 
channels I rarely if ever watch anyway my cable company offers 
everything in HD.  The HD-PVR will of course record all your 
analog/digital/HD channels but I've gone through schedules direct and 
disabled all the redundant non-HD ones.

Only reason you might want to keep the PVR-250 around is if you think 
you need another tuner.  If so you might want to think about an 
HDHomerun instead.  You don't get all the channels, but you can get all 
the major broadcast channels in HD (I get those and SyFy in clear QAM 
from my cable company).  I've got the homerun set to a higher priority, 
so that keeps the HD-PVR and all the extra channels available most of 
the time because most of the stuff I watch is broadcast anyways.