[mythtv-users] HDHomeRun Vs. PCIe tuner card?

[Brian Wood]

On Wednesday 12 August 2009 15:39:28 David Rees wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 2:37 PM, Raymond Wagner<raymond at wagnerrp.com> wrote:
> >> I chose to go with a HD HomeRun.  The reason was quite simple.  Heat.
> >> I wanted to keep heat out of my backend box that already had 5 hard
> >> drives in it.  This also had the added benefit that the backend box
> >> didn't need more PSU to handle a PCI card.
> >
> > What? Just how much power do you expect a tuner card to take?
>
> The (admittedly old) PVR-250s I have in my system draw about 10 watts each.

The 350s drew more than that, the hardware decoder, as well as the encoder, 
added up to a significant draw.

-- 
Brian Wood
beww at beww.org