On 01/23/2006 11:50 AM, Dave Jones wrote: > If you want to use a digital cable box over firewire, you only need > to spend $15 for a firewire card and you can get by with a fairly > "cheap" set of components for the rest of the box (probably even a > scavenged box). Isn't that $15 plus $6-$10/month forever... Adds up to $60 (cost of a PVR-150) really fast...
If you want digital TV (and HDTV!), the HD-3000 for $169.98 plus an antenna (I got a high-end 16'x12' VHF/UHF antenna for $130) and no recurring payments... but that assumes your local broadcasters are actually transmitting HDTV. > However, if you skimp (like me) and grab the $20 Hauppauge cards, you > will pay for it with what you need on the rest of the components. I > have a Celeron 2 GHz doing both FE and BE with the 2 bttv tuners, and > it stutters when recording 2 and watching 1. > > Taking lessons learned, I would much rather spend $100 more per tuner > to get an MPEG 2 capture card rather than cough up an extra $100-200 > for a more expensive CPU and motherboard. Definitely. With hardware encoders, you can keep adding them. I've done 4xPVR-250 while watching a previously-recorded show, but I can't imagine trying to do 4x software encoding while watching something else. > The downside? Well, if time were money, I would be bankrupt. :) And > nobody could afford hobbies. Exactly! Mike _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users