Josh: Remember that the PVR-150/500 is (by Hauppauge's own admission) a cheaper card than the PVR-250/350. It stands to reason that they cut back on tuner sensitivity.
Jonathan: I've got a powered 4-way splitter, too, and I'm having broblems with digital breakup on my cable boxes. Can you tell me (us) about your signal booster (brand, model, price, source)? Thanks, Paul Archer 9:40am, Josh Sharpe wrote: > Jonathan, > > I have a powered 4-way splitter. I would think that if there was a power > problem I would noticed at least some problems on the 350, but it continues > to be rock solid. > > On 5/30/06, Jonathan Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Josh, >> >> I have a PVR 350 and a PVR 500. I was having the same problem and the >> picture on the 500 didn't look so great (Especially on the second >> tuner). Well, I got a signal booster and installed it before my splitter >> and it fixed the problem. I suspect the 500s are more sensative to a >> weak signal than the 350. Are you sure you have a strong signal to the >> capture cards? >> >> Jonathan >> >> > I've got a 350 and a 500 installed in the same box. The 350 produces >> > great pictures, no complaints. The 500, on both tuners, produces >> > not-so-great picture. Not necessarily static -- it's viewable, but >> > not as clear as the 350. Maybe it's a firmware issue? -- I've tried >> > troubleshooting that but no luck. I noticed at the bottom of dmesg >> > there's some tuner frequency out of range "problems" (?) Then I >> > noticed the frequency of my 350 and 500 tuners were different, so I >> > set the frequency of the 500 to that of the 350 -- but that did >> > nothing, gave me a black staticy screen. Anyways, I'm including dmesg >> > as well as out put from 'ivtvctl -a -d /dev/video0' (350) and >> > 'ivtvctl -a -d /dev/video1' (first 500 tuner) >> > >> > Thanx!!! >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> ivtv-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users >> > _______________________________________________________________ "Can't you recognize bullshit? Don't you think it would be a useful item to add to your intellectual toolkits to be capable of saying, when a ton of wet steaming bullshit lands on your head, 'My goodness, this appears to be bullshit'? _____________Neal Stephenson, "Cryptonomicon"__________________ _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
