-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jared Greenwald wrote:
I've heard nothing but complaints about the quality of the output on the 350. I ended up getting the 250 since its the same as the 350, but without the video and sound out. For one thing, most decent motherboards come with AC97 or better sound chips so that shouldn't be an issue. Secondly, you should be able to find a relatively cheap video card (think GeForce FX5x00) for like $50 which would have both way better video quality, plus it would not be restricted to the PCI bus which is much slower than AGP (esp 8x).
Just a thought. I went with the 250 and a GeForce FX5200. I think my entire setup ended up costing me $600 including everything.
-Jared
HI Jared et al, I have a Hauppauge 350 and I'm very pleased with it. It has the hardware MPEG encoder & decoder on board, which I thought was a nice feature. I'm using KnoppMyth and have no problems with it. I very much encourage the use of KnoppMyth because I found that getting all of the pieces of MythTV working together was a royal PITA - probably more so than any other FOSS project that I've tried. I'm using an Xbox as the frontend and a PIII/450MHz as the backend. I'd recommend more horse power on the backend, but I get away with it since the 350 does most of the work for me. I purchased the Xbox remote control/receiver also. Although I found MythTV a bit difficult to get working (there are a zillion things to configure), the result is *well* worth it, and once configured, there isn't much else to do except enjoy it. I can't speak about Tivo since I don't own one and have never used one. Currently, I don't have digital cable, so my 350 can tune into the desired station on its own. What can one do with digital cable besides connect the TV tuner card to the "cable box" output? I don't know of any TV tuner cards which can tune directly off of a digital cable box. Later, Andy - -- Andy Stewart, Founder Worcester Linux Users' Group Worcester, MA, USA http://www.wlug.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFC/g1ZHl0iXDssISsRAmTnAJ9X9tWB0I7mZbvloE9Xlfa4qrdJDQCeLv4O DxLiOzY10vHVorRMaj82Czs= =9Whj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----