[mythtv-users] KWorld VS-TV878RF

Justin Hart justinhart at gmail.com
Mon Sep 6 20:13:43 EDT 2004


Excellent. Thanks.

Justin


On Mon, 6 Sep 2004 16:50:43 -0700, Jarod Wilson <jcw at wilsonet.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Monday 06 September 2004 16:28, Justin Hart wrote:
> > I was doing some price snooping on PVR-250's when I noticed the KWorld
> > VS-TV878RF.  The ad at newegg
> > http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=15-100-103&depa=0
> > says that it has quite a few features.  Does anybody know how this
> > stacks up to the PVR-250?
> 
> The PVR-250 has a hardware encoding chip, that card doesn't. Its just a basic
> v4l card, which will (probably) work, but you'll have to encode all video
> w/your CPU. It also appears to only have mono sound. Personally, I wouldn't
> touch it, none of the (several) non-PVR-x50 cards I've used are as good as a
> PVR-x50 in picture quality (well, 'cept my pcHDTV card ;-), plus the CPU
> usage issue.
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