[mythtv-users] TV tuner cards - low cost recommendations?

David Brodbeck gull at gull.us
Sat Feb 24 07:59:24 UTC 2007


Nick Morrott wrote:
> Personally (and if I was not after the cheapest card I could buy), I
> would recommend using a Hauppauge PVR-150 hardware MPEG-2 card
> (NZ$100) instead of a framegrabber, but you can get just as good
> quality captures (even better perhaps) from a bttv-type card.


Unless you've already got a fast CPU, I'd suggest following this advice
and going with a hardware MPEG-2 card.  Otherwise you may end up
spending more on a faster CPU than you would have on the card.


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