The 500 will still take up the external slot positions of 2 PCI slots, even though it only plugs into 1 PCI slot _per_se_. So, is it really such an advantage?
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 14:31:36 -0500 > > From: "Michael T. Dean" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > The 150 is a better card (it even has a > potential to give a better > > picture quality than the 250) and saves you > money. > > bmayland (CC'ed) started a thread on 15 June 2005 > showing dramatic > differences in sharpness between the two cards, with > the 250 winning. > He also said he'd do some more experimentation; > Bryan, did you come > up any any further results? (I'm particularly > interested in RF-in, > but I also use composite-in.) > > Also, ivtv can't do NTSC sliced VBI > closed-captioning on the 150/500 > yet, because Hans and the rest of the ivtv crew > haven't been able to > reverse-engineer that part so far. The 250/350 do > it just fine. > > (If the sharpness and CC differences between the > 250/350 series and > the 150/500 series get resolved, then my next > purchase will be a 500, > but until then, I'm going to waste PCI slots and get > 250's since > they'll work better for me. Assuming, of course, > they're still being > made at that point---I sure hope so.) > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
