[mythtv-users] Will a PVR-[23]50 help HD playback?

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In order to keep my hardware costs down as much as possible, I was 
looking at a variety of possibilities in hardware configurations.

I was wondering if having a PVR-[23]50 along with one or more HD-3000 
cards would work to decode the HD streams.  A PVR-350 is a lot cheaper 
than a new MB, processor and memory for a Myth box.

The goal would be to use the encoding (probably not used with an HD 
stream) / decoding properties of the PVR card, and not it's tuner.

Is there a stand-alone hardware (en|de)coder card that would be better 
suited for this configuration?

Anyone tried this?  Is it possible?

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Marc Christensen
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