On Friday 14 October 2005 02:56, Jake wrote: > we have 2 pvr-500's and we regularily record 4 streams at once at an > average bitrate of about 4500 without any loss of quality. we have > actually been contemplating putting another 500 into the mix. the > bitrates of the recordings on a pvr-500 are miniscule compared to the > throughput of a modern drive, though latency could be an issue i guess > with a large number of streams. > > i just tried it and we have now recorded 4 shows and watched all four > on four different frontends simultaneously without the backend > breaking a sweat. though, my roommates did look at me funny as i ran > around the house turning on all the tvs.
awesome, I've been thinking about getting a PVR-500, its good to know its working well. hopefully it will work with a couple DVB HD3000 cards as well. Question, my play is to use one tuner and the svideo/audio(from cablebox) as the two inputs to the 500, is this combination possible? Steve _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
