[mythtv-users] PVR 350 vs PVR 250?

Jay R. Ashworth jra at baylink.com
Mon Aug 30 16:24:00 EDT 2004


On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 01:01:45PM -0500, Michael J. Lynch wrote:
> The main differences are (as far as I know):
> 
>     250:  Hardware based encoder only (No hardware based decoder).
>     350:  Hardware based encoder AND hardware based decoder.  TV out.

Note that the 250MCE *has* the decoder, but since there's no TV-out
hardware, no one's figured out whether it can be used as a standalone
hardware decode-codec yet.

Cheers,
-- jra
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