On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 01:37:36PM -0400, Taylor Jacob wrote: > Why would anyone want to use a card like the hd2k for analog when you can get > a > pvr250 and go straight to mpeg2 with no cpu load? I never have understood > this.. I do loathe analog tv, but I do see a need for it remaining, but I > don't > see why one would not just use a real hardware encoding card for analog tv > over > a card like the hd2k/3k
Personally there are 4 reasons:
#1 My media center PC only has 1 PCI slot... so something doing both
HDTV and analog in one card is VERY nice
#2 The analog is 'free' on the card... If you have it why not use it...
#3 Even at Ebay prices the pcHDTV cards are barely twice as much and
get you HDTV as well as analog
#4 The pcHDTV seems to have a slightly nicer analog tuner than the PVR
series... images seem to come in better looking
I would LOVE it if someone got the analog + DVB working correctly.
If nothing else having the framework in MythTv would make it easier to
integrate other multifunction devices that need crosslocking.
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