[mythtv-users] Hauppauge PVR Questions

[zoiks2004-ivtv@yahoo.com]

The 500 will still take up the external slot positions
of 2 PCI slots, even though it only plugs into 1 PCI
slot _per_se_.  So, is it really such an advantage?

--- f-myth-users at media.mit.edu wrote:

>     > 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.)
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