--- Wade Maxfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >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 > For the most part, a PVR-150 is a cost reduced PVR-250 with a different tuner chip and a different MPEG-2 encoder chip. (I don't actually have a PVR-150, but I have a PVR-500 which uses the same components). I haven't really noticed the volume issue, but up until the recent ivtv drivers (0.4.1), I did notice a difference in picture quality. At this point, I'd say that the quality of both are good enough. -- Joe __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
