[mythtv-users] Difference between WinTV PVR-250 and 150?

[Wade Maxfield]

>I'm looking at these 2 cards back-to-back on the Hauppage site:
>
><http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/products/data_pvr250.html>http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/products/data_pvr250.html
>
><http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/products/data_pvr150.html>http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/products/data_pvr150.html
>
>   And I'm not seeing any difference, besides the tech specs.
>
>   In layman's terms, why would I use a 250 vs. a 150 for a second 
>capture card? (I'm using a PVR-250 as my current primary capture 
>card).
>
>Technically speaking
>WinTV-PVR-150 contains a high quality 10-bit video digitizer with 4 
>line adaptive comb filter to reduce video noise, plus a highly 
>integrated MPEG-1/2 hardware encoder. WinTV-PVR-150 can record full 
>screen TV or video at data rates from 2.5 to 12 Mbits/sec from TV, 
>VCR or camcorder. The encoded MPEG-2 video is sent over the PCI bus, 
>where it is stored on the PCs hard disk. The video can also be 
>played back to the PC screen while recording.
>
>Technically speaking
>WinTV-PVR-250 contains a highly integrated MPEG-1/2 hardware 
>encoder, plus a high quality video digitizer. WinTV-PVR-250 can 
>record full screen TV or video from a VCR or camcorder, using as 
>little as 1.5GB of hard disk space per hour. The encoded MPEG-2 
>video is sent over the PCI bus, where it is stored on the PCs hard 
>disk. The video can also be played back to the PC screen while 
>recording.
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Picture quality aside (and on my system I can't really see much of a 
difference) there seems to be a noticeable difference, as others have 
mentioned recently, in the volume the 150 records at compared to the 
250.

  - Wade