Hardware Decoders

spyork · (This post was last modified: 2005-10-02, 04:41 AM by spyork.)

In the past I have attempted to use the PVR-350 TV-OUT with SageTV and GBPVR, and the picture was much better than using a software decoder and the TV-OUT on an Nvidia/ATI card. The problem is that using the output on the PVR-350 causes my machine to lockup often, and I know others have this same problem as well. My question is what other hardware decoders exist that work well with GBPVR? How's the XCard? I would like to have my main server connected to one television while other televisions in the house will be using Media MVP units. Also if there are no other good hardware decoders, what inexpensive video cards do you recommend? I've tried a couple of Nvidia cards, but the quality was just not there. With the PVR-350 the picture was just as good as hooking my cable box directly to the television. Will a good video card w/ TV-OUT and a good software decoder give me this type of picture?

Thanks...
Spyork

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