[mythtv] USB tv tuner with mpg2 compression

Henk Poley mythtv-dev@snowman.net
Sat, 7 Dec 2002 08:34:53 +0100


> Van: Isaac Richards <ijr@po.cwru.edu>
> 
> On Friday 06 December 2002 06:15 am, kevin thayer wrote:
> > I saw this mentioned earlier, but it died a quick
> > death and Isaac mentioned that he wasn't particularly
> > interested in usb devices (Isaac, would you mind
> > mentioning why?)
> 
> Well, those WinTV USB PVR cards go for almost $200.  You can buy
> something like an XP 1700+, 256MB of DDR ram, and a motherboard and
> get better quality/higher compression for about that much.  Which
> is more useful? =)
> If they were closer to $50, and you could hook up 4 of them, then
> I'd be interested.  But you can't, so...

Well, at eBay and the likes you can find them for about $75...

	Henk Poley <><