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

[Joel Means]

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Andrew Davis wrote:
> 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...
> 

What he is referring to is using the built in tuner for tuning in OTA or
analog cable signals (not using s-video or composite inputs).  There
have been a lot of complaints about the PVR500's having noisy tuners (I
think it is mostly due to the signal splitting causing a lot of loss as
the tuner is the same as the PVR150 and there haven't been complaints
about that).  The amplifier he refers to is a signal amplifier for the
incoming signal.
Since I am on Dish Network, I don't use the onboard tuners, so I can't
comment on that.
Joel
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