What I have

betlit · 2005-10-26, 04:50 PM

the tuners are the only difference. pvr-500 has two of them (in fact: the pvr-500 is just two pvr-150 combined on one board), the 150 has 'only' one.

if you are sure, that you never want to record two shows at one time i should go for a 150. its quality is really good and it does not cost too much.

graphic card tv out:
yes, thats what most of us do. using a graphic card with a good tv out. this is actually important since some (most?) graphic cards' tv outs are... crap. since this is a commonly used setup there are surely a lot of people which can tell what cards deliver good quality pictures on the tv and which one don't.
my tv-compy is connected to a beamer by a standard vga-cable, so i do not use a tv out.

Manoe · 2005-10-26, 04:56 PM

I will have to see how I want to set it all up once I start connecting it. My AIW card has the S-video that I can run to the TV as well. So basically everything we are watching goes through the tuner card and to the HD of the computer and out from the AIW to the TV. I think I am getting this figured out. I will have to see the difference in price between the 2 cards.

I will do some reading on what video cards deliver good pictures on thier outputs. Also can you tell me if I am better off running a Media Center OS with gbPVR or plain XP home/pro?

andlju · 2005-10-27, 06:48 AM

Manoe Wrote:Also can you tell me if I am better off running a Media Center OS with gbPVR or plain XP home/pro?

If you already have a license for XP then I'd use it. GBPVR works fine with any XP installation (Home/Pro or MCE).

MCE is more or less the same as Pro but without the possibility of joining a domain (but who needs that for a home network anyway..?). MCE also comes with some other goodies, but if you're going to use GBPVR then they won't be much use to you (can even be kind of annoying).