Ah, Thanks for the info, Brian!<br><br>You also made me take a closer look at my question. I should have included "Live TV" picture quality in addition to recorded TV in my initial question.<br>Is there anything I can do other than attempt to boost the signal to get a better live TV picture quality? I've tried boosting the signal but it doesn't seem
<br>to make any difference. I figured if I can improve the Live TV picture quality then the recorded picture quality would have a better chance of improving.<br><br>Thanks again!<br><br>-Lionel<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">
On 11/20/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Brian Wood</b> <<a href="mailto:beww@beww.org">beww@beww.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>On Nov 20, 2006, at 2:37 AM, Armblessed wrote:<br><br>><br>><br>> Hey there, guys & gals<br>><br>> I've finally gotten my MythTV box running. It was an epic battle<br>> and with the exception of a stupid question or two (thanks again,
<br>> Mike! ^_^) , I'm pretty satisfied with the installation process of<br>> MythTV.<br>> Now that I've gotten to use it for a few days, I started to notice<br>> the picture quality of the Haupauge PVR-500 card I have. I can say
<br>> that it is pretty...well... "meh". Compared to the picture<br>> quality of the<br>> backups of my DVDs, the picture this card gives for my cable is<br>> simply underwhelming. I've heard alot of people talk bad about the
<br>> picture quality of the card I've chosen so I know it's not just my<br>> cable signal. That being said, I loved the challenge of this<br>> install so much that I want to build another MythTV box but I don't
<br>> really want to end up with the same less-than-stellar picture<br>> quality from my next card I select. Dual tuners aside, What would<br>> this group think would be the card that has the best picture<br>> quality that could replace the functionality of my PVR-500?
<br>><br><br><br>As I understand it the PVR-500 is simply a pair of PVR-150s on a<br>single card.<br><br>I'm using several 150s and and am more or less happy with their<br>performance, they do what I would expect from an SD hardware MPEG-2
<br>encoder.<br><br>You might want to look at the encoding parameters for your card(s),<br>the defaults are somewhat less than optimal, and certainly less than<br>you would get from a DVD rip. Setting them up for better quality will
<br>no doubt require more storage, but life is full of tradeoffs.<br><br><br></blockquote></div><br>