[mythtv-users] Hauppauge PVR Questions

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    > Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 14:31:36 -0500
    > From: "Michael T. Dean" <mtdean at thirdcontact.com>

    > The 150 is a better card (it even has a potential to give a better 
    > picture quality than the 250) and saves you money.

bmayland (CC'ed) started a thread on 15 June 2005 showing dramatic
differences in sharpness between the two cards, with the 250 winning.
He also said he'd do some more experimentation; Bryan, did you come
up any any further results?  (I'm particularly interested in RF-in,
but I also use composite-in.)

Also, ivtv can't do NTSC sliced VBI closed-captioning on the 150/500
yet, because Hans and the rest of the ivtv crew haven't been able to
reverse-engineer that part so far.  The 250/350 do it just fine.

(If the sharpness and CC differences between the 250/350 series and
the 150/500 series get resolved, then my next purchase will be a 500,
but until then, I'm going to waste PCI slots and get 250's since
they'll work better for me.  Assuming, of course, they're still being
made at that point---I sure hope so.)