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Hardware MPEG2 TV Tuners Compared
EconolineCrush writes "The Tech Report has put together an intriguing comparison of TV tuner cards with hardware MPEG2 acceleration from ATI, eVGA, and Hauppauge. The article examines CPU utilization for typical PVR tasks and highlights some very apparent image quality differences between the three cards. Testing was apparently done with Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005, but does anyone have experience with the cards in MythTV?"
I have a tivo.
Honestly I don't know why more people don't go the old 'build your own PVR system'.
Having checked out the Knoppmyth site it would appear that after only a new PC, tuner card, degree in computer science and many weeks of messing around with it, I would certainly end up with something that will work.
It would only require my wife and kids completeing their associates in computing for them to be able to use it. Oh, and don't forget the job working nights that I will have to take on as I will spend all day every day supporting it.
I mean, who do these TiVo johnnies think they are? Why would mr & mrs joe public ever use anything that they can plug in and just have work. Don't they realise that everyone likes to tinker around way out of their depth.
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Just because your paranoid doesn't really mean they aren't out to get you
This is true if your camcorder is a digital one and has firewire ports.
...As opposed to all those analogue
Digital Video
camcorders?