I hope that this is not a double post, as I tried sending this before I registered, so sorry to all if it is, but I am interested in the answers. Thank you.
--- I am considering buying either a Hauppauge PVR 250 or 350, but I am a little confused regarding the differences. Am I correct: Both do hardware compression with a MPEG-2 encoder so that recording a show uses very little CPU resources. Only the PVR 350 does hardware MPEG-2 decoding so that existing MPEG-2 files on your computer, from any source, can be played back through the TV out to a TV set while using little CPU resources. (Oh yes, the 350 has an FM tuner, but I do not care. . .) My real problem is that I do not have a TV but have a large investment in large, very good glass monitors and plan to watch TV on these. I expect that I would tend to burn DVDs if I wanted to save recorded shows, but I might - vary occasionally - pump a recoded show out to an existing VCR. Now the PVR-250 does have TV out, but not hardware decompression. Would software decompressing be fast enough to record to a VCR on a PIII duel processor at 700MHz with 512 MB memory - assuming that the machine was doing nothing else? Does the PVR-350 offer any advantage with Hardware decoding when displaying on the Computer Monitor. If the PVR-250 is OK, should I be considering the PVR-150s. The specifications in the Hauppauge page is not clear on these points. Thank you. John T -- John Turnbull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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