[mythtv-users] Sigma Designs X-Card

[Will Dormann]

At 10:57 AM 12/16/2003 -0800, you wrote:
>On Tuesday 16 December 2003 10:39 am, James L. Paul wrote:
>> > 	Of course, the PVR/350 has the encoder and decoder in one card, but you
>> > can't use both at the same time.  The X-Card only costs $99.00 to get a
>> > second decoder with the necessary Y-Pb-R outputs to drive an HDTV
>> > directly.
>>
>> Wow! Is this true? I highly suspect the assertion that the PVR-350 can't
>> encode and decode at the same time, wouldn't that mean for our purposes it
>> would serve as a TV-out card only and not be available as a capture tuner?
>
>	Well, unless the hardware on the PVR/350 is very powerful, I would think it 
>could not do both operations at the same time on the same card.  It would be 
>able to do ONE or the other, but not both simultaneously.


Don't make assumptions and state them as fact.


-WD