[mythtv-users] PVR-250 vs PVR-250MCE

[asmussen at cox.net]

I am getting ready to add a second tuner card to my backend box. I'm going to have the cable box hooked up to one of them using an ir-blaster to change channels, and I intend to just pipe basic cable into the 2nd tuner. Since 95% of my recordings are off of the basic cable channels, I figure this ought to all but eliminate scheduling conflicts, and make watching live TV much easier. What I'm trying to figure out is which card to put in as my second tuner. I'm currently running a PVR-350 as my tuner card, although I am not using the TV out on it. That works pretty well, so I figured I'd add a 250 for my second tuner. The MCE version of the card costs about the same as the non-MCE version, and I'm wondering which one I should buy. I have seen that a lot of people are having issues getting the MCE cards to work, but I imagine that is a temporary issue, and that once the 1.10 drivers are stable, the MCE card shouldn't be a problem. However, if there aren't any benefits to using the MCE card over the regular card, I figure I might as well just get the plain old 250 and not have to deal with getting the MCE card to work. So my question is basically this: What does the 250-MCE card have going for it that would make me want to buy it instead of a normal 250 to put in my mythtv box?

Shawn Asmussen