[mythtvnz] Help spending my brothers $5K on MythTV

[Nick Rout]

On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 12:28:43 +1300
Steve Hodge wrote:

> On 2/23/06, paul arthur <paul_arthur@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > d) no FTA TV due to bad reception (bad phone lines too.)
> ...
> > 2) Purchase new
> >         - PVR150
> 
> If you're only recording from Sky Digital you don't need the tuner so
> why not get a dumb video capture card instead of a PVR150 (e.g.
> http://www.dse.co.nz/cgi-bin/dse.storefront/en/product/XH6594)?
> Certainly 1GHz Athlon should have no problem recording and playing
> back at the same time.

I don't fully concur. The hardware conversion to mpeg2 would be a
definite advantage on that system IMHO.

> 
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Nick Rout <nick@rout.co.nz>