[mythtv-users] PVR-350 - Should I send it back?

[Johnny Fulcrum]

On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 09:07:21 -0500, Jason Giddens <jgiddens at bigfoot.com> 
wrote:

> Ok,
>
> For Christmas my wife was wonderful enough to buy me an Asus Pundit, 
> CPU, Memory
> and a Hauppauge PVR-350. I had given her the hardware list after reading 
> the
> Mythtv web page, and lurking on the list for a while.
>

Your wife an my wife should talk.  The sooner the better ;)

> Now that I have gotten the devices, I am wondering if I should send in 
> the 350
> and get a PVR-250 instead. Here is why I may want to:
>
> - I am a Linux Newbie- I know there are excellent docs out there to help 
> me, but
> I am pretty much a rank beginner and the 350 seems like I need to be a 
> little
> more "leet" to handle it.
>

Bah! Leet is as Leet does.  Leet, shmeet - You've got hardweare, software 
and a brain?  That's all you need.
Keep the 350, use the on board Pundit out and play with the 350 out once 
you get used to the system.

You've got hardware to "grow into" !  Keep it!

> - I want to watch Divx shows- The main reason for the MythTv box is so 
> that I
> can watch shows I download from BitTorrent on the big tv. Secondary 
> purpose is
> to augment our Tivo.
>
> So. I know that the 350's output is beautiful, but I also know that I 
> will have
> to transcode the Divx files into MPEG2 everytime I want to watch them.
>
> What does the list think?
>
> Jason Giddens
> jgiddens_ at _ bigfoot_dot_com
>
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