No TV out on the PVR-250 - it's TV in. Only the PVR-350 has TV-out (as far as I know, the PVR-150 and the PVR-500 also do not have TV-out, but I have not used either of them, so I can't be 100% certain).
The PVR-350 cannot connect to a VGA monitor (if that is what you are referring to), it can only do S-Video or composite out. The picture on a PVR-350 is pretty much perfect when watching MPEG-2 streams, but anything else has to go through a framebuffer, which will really tax your CPU (it is software decoding at that point). Also, the PVR-350 does have some issues with the framebuffer, sometimes the screen will just blank (or, at least it did last time I used it). -- Joe --- John Turnbull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I hope that this is not a double post, as I tried > sending this before I > registered, so sorry to all if it is, but I am > interested in the > answers. Thank you. > > --- > > I am considering buying either a Hauppauge PVR 250 > or 350, but I am a > little confused regarding the differences. > > Am I correct: > > Both do hardware compression with a MPEG-2 encoder > so that recording a > show uses very little CPU resources. > > Only the PVR 350 does hardware MPEG-2 decoding so > that existing MPEG-2 > files on your computer, from any source, can be > played back through the > TV out to a TV set while using little CPU resources. > > (Oh yes, the 350 has an FM tuner, but I do not care. > . .) > > My real problem is that I do not have a TV but have > a large investment > in large, very good glass monitors and plan to watch > TV on these. I > expect that I would tend to burn DVDs if I wanted to > save recorded > shows, but I might - vary occasionally - pump a > recoded show out to an > existing VCR. > > Now the PVR-250 does have TV out, but not hardware > decompression. Would > software decompressing be fast enough to record to a > VCR on a PIII duel > processor at 700MHz with 512 MB memory - assuming > that the machine was > doing nothing else? > > Does the PVR-350 offer any advantage with Hardware > decoding when > displaying on the Computer Monitor. > > If the PVR-250 is OK, should I be considering the > PVR-150s. > > > The specifications in the Hauppauge page is not > clear on these points. > > Thank you. John T > > > -- > John Turnbull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > __________________________________ Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web http://birthday.yahoo.com/netrospective/
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