[mythtv-users] Video Display card recommendation
Brian Wood
beww at beww.org
Tue May 2 22:23:40 UTC 2006
On May 2, 2006, at 4:16 PM, Joel Turner wrote:
>>
> Check the mythtv wiki. There are instructions for running XV on the
> PVR-350. I do this for my SD based setup (8 yr old Toshiba) and the
> output is great. There are disadvantages to this approach which are
> detailed elsewhere in the archives. If you have any intentions of
> replacing your set soon with a plasma or LCD I would not bother
> with the
> PVR-350 but would look at an nVidia 6200. It's PCI based, some models
> are fanless and have composite out.
Why a 6200 ? A 5200 is cheaper and will do what needs to be done.
The extra cost of a 350 over a 150 is more than the cost of a 5200,
so what would be the advantage of a 350 except possibly to save a PCI
slot ?
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