[mythtvnz] Quality of WinTV PVR 150

[Stephen Worthington]

On Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:31:39 +1200, you 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 :)

I am surprised that DVB-T would not be coming eventually to everywhere
that analogue is, since they plan to turn off the analogue
transmitters eventually.  Certainly there are large parts of NZ where
DVB-T is not being transmitted in the first round of installations,
but I had not heard anything to suggest that they did not intend to
extend the coverage in the same way analogue coverage was originally
extended.