I bit the bullet and got the PVR350/250 combo. Call me impatient but I couldn't wait for drivers to be released for the cheaper cards. I had a hell of a time finding the PVR 250's though. I tried for 3 weeks, calling every online shop I could find on google. I finally found a local store that had an entire all full of the things...
Get one PVR 350, it's worth the price. You get hardware Encore AND Decode, and it also doubles as your TV out card. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Jeff Crystal Network Engineer Novell CNE, Microsoft MCP, Citrix CCA, Compaq APS, HP ASP, Xerox ASP ---------------------------------------------------------------- Integrated Data Solutions Madison Heights, MI (248) 543-5300 ---------------------------------------------------------------- >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/10/05 2:18 PM >>> So here it is, Feb, 2005, and I have a box all ready to go for MythTV (backend and frontend in one box) except for one pretty essential part: the tuner card. I'm pretty set on getting a hardware encoder, since I want to reserve the CPU cycles for other things, but at this point, I can't figure out what card to get. Eventually I'll want more than 1 tuner, to deal with two programs airing at the same time (West Wing and Alias) and shows intentionally overrunning their hour boundaries and starting/stopping at odd times (sports). .... If that's the state of affairs, if you were building a MythTV box to be used in the US, receiving analog cable TV, and wanted a stable system -- but didn't want to pay too much -- what would you do? What card would you buy today to make a nice, reliable PVR? Ben _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
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