[mythtvnz] Quality of WinTV PVR 150

[Steven Mulvay]

Thanks for that Andrew, your feedback sounds promising. I presume that 
if I just have the coax going from the arial jack point in the wall 
directly to the socket on the tuner card I won't require a splitter, is 
that correct? It probably sounds like a stupid question but I don't 
know exactly what a splitter does. I presume it’s just for feeding one 
coax cable into multiple devices, but for all I know it might do 
something special to the signal as well.

Incidentally I like Prime too and that's the only reason I want to 
start of with analogue. I plan to get a DVB-S card at a later date. 
When that happens maybe you could tell me about the make and model of 
your splitter and give me a  few pointers on how to set it all up.

Cheers,
Steve :) 

On Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:40:30 +1200, Andrew Richards wrote:
> 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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