[mythtv-users] OT: Buying pvr-350 in SF bay area

[Warren]

Nick Bartos wrote:
>> What are the issues, and what are you currently using for playback? For
>> capture?
>>     
>
> Just problems with the whole deinterlacing thing.  I had a few threads
> about this.  I'm getting frustrated to the point where I wouldn't mind
> spending a bit of money just to see if it will work better, which for me I
> think it will.
>
>
>   
>> The output quality on the 350 is very good for SDTV, but beware: With
>> the 350 it will be difficult or impossible to get BIOS/bootup messages
>> and to play back any video not captured by the 350 (or in standard SD
>> MPEG-2).
>>
>> This means no HD, no Divx, no Xvid, no MPEG-4 of any kind, etc.
>>
>> If you're only planning on playing back SDTV that you capture, the 350
>> will do nicely. If you care about transcoding, DVD archiving, etc, the
>> 350 will probably disappoint you.
>>     
>
> 90% of it will be SDTV, the other video's I have are mostly mpeg2.  A
> couple of avi's.  I thought that you could use fb to play back those, but
> even if not I wouldn't mind transcoding the avi's into mpeg2.  If it comes
> down to getting really good quality for my regular TV (which is 90% of the
> use), I would be willing to spend a bit more for extra hard drive space
> required for keeping everything in mpeg2.
>
> I do have a HTDV monitor, but it is older and only does 480p on component.
>  Since the vast majority of the content I watch comes in off of a
> svideo/hardware mpeg2 decoder, I really don't need to use that.  I would
> easily trade better quality on SDTV for the very small percentage of DVDs
> that I would play on it that may get a bit better quality on 480p instead
> of the 480i.
>
> If I need to get into it for bios/etc, I can just switch my tv's input (I
> will keep my current svideo-output nvidia card).
>
>   
>> Most likely you'd be better off going out through an nvidia card (gf4
>> / fx). You should be able to get one for $50-$60 that has a heatsink
>> (rather than a fan) and outputs through DVI and S-video as well as
>> VGA.
>>     
>
> I already have a fanless nvidia 6600, which would seem to be a decent card
> for this.  However I just can't seem to get the quality I want.  As many
> hours as I have put in this (probably more working on my myth box the last
> month than I did at my actual job), I don't mind spending $150 as just an
> attempt to alleviate that.
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If de-interlacing as the problem is the case then the 350 is not where
you want to go.  480p is only available on component in the analog
realm.  The 350 only does output to s-video and composite.


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