On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 14:59 -0400, Folashade Adeyosoye wrote: > I am beginning to think I might have chosen the wrong card, I am not looking > on upgrading my Comcast cable anytime soon to digital.
In that case, if you have analog cable connected to your HD-3000 card, then just use the V4L drivers. Worked for me, avoids the conflict with IVTV drivers. > I wonder what the ratio of HD-3000 is to the PVR-500 out there, and which > one would one consider the better card. Well, I started my whole trip into MythTV land by buying an HD-3000 card because I was worried about the broadcast flag stuff. I was afraid that if I didn't buy one before July 1, those cards would become illegal in the US unless they had a lot of onerous DRM stuff. Turns out the US Supreme Court postponed implementation of the broadcast flag rule, but I already had my HD-3000 so I set about using it. It worked OK, but the more I learned about all of this stuff, the more I realized it really isn't the right card for analog cable. If you aren't actually receiving HD signals, then the PVR-500 is far superior. The PVR cards have hardware encoding. With the HD-3000, your CPU has to do all the work. The PVR-500 also has TWO tuners, a big win on a MythTV box. So I ended up switching to the PVR-500 on my master backend, and I have a slave backend that has a PVR-150. I don't even use the HD-3000 any more, I will maybe try to use it one of these days for getting OTA HD channels, but we only have a small handful of those in our area and I don't have an HD-capable TV yet anyway. I think, if you are just using analog cable, that you are way better off with a PVR card than an HD-3000. --Greg
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