[mythtv-users] pcHDTV-5500 reception versus WinTV-HVR-1800?

[James Sumners]

Well, I have a CM4228 antenna with a CM7777 pre-amp. I can't get much
better. What I don't understand is why my MythTV box gets a bad MPEG
stream while my television plays just fine. If I look at the
mythfrontend log I see a lot of ac-tex and bad mb frame errors while
watching live tv.

It looks like the HVR-1600 uses a decoder chip released in 2004 while
the HVR-1800 uses one released in 2007. Maybe there is an improvement
in picture quality? But those are the decoder chips. Would they be
more important than the tuner chips?

Thank you for the input. I will certainly skip the HVR-1600. I'm still
curious about the 1800, though.


On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 9:54 AM, Greg Mischel Smith <gregms at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have the WinTV-HVR-1600 on my Windows machine and I have not been very
> impressed with it. I decided to purchase two pcHDTV-5500 for my MythTV
> system and I have been very impressed thus far.
>
> Nonetheless, the thing I found that makes the biggest difference is the
> antenna I use. With the right antenna, I can get a clear signal on both, but
> with the wrong type of antenna for my area, the MythTV system using
> pcHDTV-5500 still shows a better picture than my WinTV-1600 using the WinTV
> software. But again, I don't have any direct experience with Hauppauge cards
> in Linux.
>
> Greg Mischel Smith
> KCMO

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