On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 05:31:13PM -0700, Gus Wirth wrote: > I was just at Fry's and they have the Hauppauge WinTV-PVR 150 for sale at > $80. This is about $10-20 cheaper than anywhere else I've seen plus it > provides instant gratification to buy it now. It's not yet officially > supported for MythTV but there are already experimental drivers for it at > the ivtv project. Unfortunately, the sale ends today (04/04/2005). I bought > one in anticipation of building a MythTV recorder. I seem to recall that > Lan Barnes was looking into building one of these. >
Already got one yesterday. I wasn't thinking Myth, although that's a nice add in. I added a 20' RCA plug cable for about $6 to run from my VCR to the PVR card so I can transcribe some old family video tapes to CD/DVD. > For anyone wondering, the only difference I see between the 150 and the 250 > versions is that the 250 has hardware encoding for recording VCD. If I'm > going to do that I can always post-process the MPEG-2 files generated by > the original capture process. > I was wondering, and now I know. -- Lan Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Guy, SCM Specialist 858-354-0616 -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
