>I'm looking at these 2 cards back-to-back on the Hauppage site: > ><http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/products/data_pvr250.html>http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/products/data_pvr250.html > ><http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/products/data_pvr150.html>http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/products/data_pvr150.html > > And I'm not seeing any difference, besides the tech specs. > > In layman's terms, why would I use a 250 vs. a 150 for a second >capture card? (I'm using a PVR-250 as my current primary capture >card). > >Technically speaking >WinTV-PVR-150 contains a high quality 10-bit video digitizer with 4 >line adaptive comb filter to reduce video noise, plus a highly >integrated MPEG-1/2 hardware encoder. WinTV-PVR-150 can record full >screen TV or video at data rates from 2.5 to 12 Mbits/sec from TV, >VCR or camcorder. The encoded MPEG-2 video is sent over the PCI bus, >where it is stored on the PCs hard disk. The video can also be >played back to the PC screen while recording. > >Technically speaking >WinTV-PVR-250 contains a highly integrated MPEG-1/2 hardware >encoder, plus a high quality video digitizer. WinTV-PVR-250 can >record full screen TV or video from a VCR or camcorder, using as >little as 1.5GB of hard disk space per hour. The encoded MPEG-2 >video is sent over the PCI bus, where it is stored on the PCs hard >disk. The video can also be played back to the PC screen while >recording. > > >--------------S > >
Picture quality aside (and on my system I can't really see much of a difference) there seems to be a noticeable difference, as others have mentioned recently, in the volume the 150 records at compared to the 250. - Wade _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
