Monday, April 28, 2008
Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-500 MCE Dual Tuner
I bought the TV tuner that will go in to my MythTV system today. The PVR-500 is a dual TV tuner with hardware encoding to MPEG-2. The hardware encoding is important because it will take a lot of stress off of the CPU allowing me save money on the CPU. I got the card off of ebay for about $98 after shipping which is a pretty good deal on ebay with the average at this time being about $105; although, I did see one go for a little less earlier this week. I choose the PVR-500 over the 350 so I could get two tv tuners in one, which will allow me to record two shows at once which most commercial DVRs will allow you to do. Since my initial box will only be hooked up to one TV I don't see the need to get more than two channels at a time, but in the future I have the option to add another TV tuner.
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