[mythtv-users] Are PVR-500's safe to buy new right now?

[Andrew Davis]

Picture quality is fine... better on component than s-video, but fine 
nonetheless and besides... it's the output card and TV/monitor that 
determines the picture quality... not the tuner except for snow, etc. In 
my case I have Cox Digital Cable and the quality in to the tuners is 
just fine. As for an amp, I assume you mean for sound? Again, how does 
this affect the PVR500??? My audio is running through digital out on my 
sound card to an amp, to answer your question, but I've also run it 
straight to the audio in on my TV without issue... I just can't make it 
as loud.

FWIW your questions make it sound like you haven't used a PVR500 card... 
the PVR500 is only a dual tuner (two 150s as other describe it) card... 
with multiple input options (coax, s-video, component, etc). My PVR 500 
card has little to do with my picture quality and audio as long as the 
signal comes in from Cox well... that said, its the video out and TV and 
my audio output options that determine the quality more than anything 
else...

Troy Smith wrote:
> How's the picture quality?
> Are use you using an amp?
>
> On 10/6/06, *Andrew Davis* <andrew at nccomp.com 
> <mailto:andrew at nccomp.com>> wrote:
>
>     I bought one three weeks ago and it works just fine... running
>     Myth .20
>     on FC5
>
>     Troy Smith wrote:
>     > k, so I have a myth box almost all set up and ready to go.  Only
>     thing
>     > is, I only have a pcHDTV 3000 card in there, so no cable, and I want
>     > more than one tuner anyways.  What I'd really like to get is a
>     > PVR-500, but after all the recent noise concerning the tuners in
>     them,
>     > I can't pull the trigger.
>     >
>     > So, what's the current status of the PVR-500's with the new tuners?
>     > Are they safe to use? I can buy an amplifier if that fixes the
>     issues,
>     > but I haven't seen anything conclusively saying that'd be the case.
>     >
>     >
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