[mythtvnz] Quality of WinTV PVR 150

[Andrew Richards]

Steve,

I have used my OVR150 under Vista MCE, mythTV and Mediaportal for over
a year in different physical locations and found its picture quality
to be generally be pretty good. Now it is clearly inferior to the
Freeview channels on my box (the PVR150 is just for Prime not
suprisingly) but I don't see anything particularily bad about it. It
probably is a bit worse than a decent TV's internal tuner can be (bit
more blocky at times, I havn't done a through comparison on this) but
that will happen when encoding then decoding the video.

In my case the signal goes through a powered splitter the two internal
cards (Nova T 500 and PVR 150) and TV, probably necessary for analogue
TV off any split signal.

Hope that helps, I'm plenty of others here have this card so you
should be a able to make a democratic decision!

Andrew

On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 9:31 PM, Steven Mulvay
<steven.mulvay at slingshot.co.nz> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I've decided not to buy the WinTV-HVR-1300 because of some of the
> problems people have had with them and because I found out that
> Freeview is not planning to ever bring DVB-T to Taranaki. (note that
> the
> HVR-1300 is an analogue and DVB-T card) So now I'm looking at buying
> the WinTV PVR 150 analogue card. Has anyone had any experience with
> that card, if so how did you find it? Some people in the mythtv-users
> IRC channel said that they had poor quality pictures from them and that
> additional external tuner boxes are needed to get good reception. I
> certainly hope this is the exception rather than the rule. Any comments
> and feedback about the PVR-150 would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Cheers,
> Steve :)
>
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