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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Brian Wood <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:beww@beww.org">beww@beww.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div class="im">On Tuesday 09 February 2010 01:45:57 pm Bob Wiegand wrote:<br>> Brian Wood wrote:<br>> > On Tuesday 09 February 2010 01:18:50 pm Bob Wiegand wrote:<br>> >> I wouldn't mind getting a dual analog/digital card as long as the<br>
> >> analog half works well. I tried a HVR-1600 but the analog capture<br>> >> just isn't that good.<br>> ><br>> > Are you able to compare it's analog capture to a PVR? The 1600 has<br>
> > hardware MPEG encoding, I'd expect it to be more or less the same as a<br>> > PVR, or is it perhaps a driver issue that might improve with time?<br>><br>> I doubt its the driver. I would guess that the hardware tuner just isn't<br>
> as good.<br>><br>> I had both the 350 and the 1600 in my machine at the same time. When I<br>> switched back an forth between tuners the difference in quality was<br>> easy to see.<br><br></div>Still not definitive. The two tuners might want different input levels for<br>
optimum performance. Even the slot position might make a difference.<br><br>But it's a datapoint, thanks for any information you can provide.<br><br>Testing with baseband video input would eliminate the tuners from the<br>
equation. I think a lot of analog capture devices will be used with STBs or<br>sat receivers these days, so baseband performance might be the most important<br>factor.<br>
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<div>I've had the opposite thing happen. I can hardly tell the difference. YMMV, I guess :-)</div>