[mythtv-users] Cheap MPEG cards

[Joseph A. Caputo]

On Tuesday 11 November 2003 14:49, Gavin Hamill wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 10:38:03AM -0800, Harondel J. Sibble wrote:
> > On 11 Nov 2003 at 9:57, Lance Tost wrote:
> > > I'm just getting started with MythTV (currently, I have one older
> > > WinTV/FM card only)... Can anyone make a good argument for buying
> > > a PVR-250 instead of these AVerMedia cards?
> >
> > Given the price, nope ;-)
>
> And surely given the fact that AVerMedia have declared their support
> of Open-Source by providing the driver author with technical
> information, surely it would be prudent to support AVerMedia in
> preference to Hauppauge who are generally clueless even given
> Windows, never mind Linux.
>
> But yeh, they're also a lot cheaper :)

I agree... a bunch of guys from my LUG are getting together to buy >5 so 
we can get the free shipping.  I'm happy to support a vendor/
manufacturer that supports open specifications.

Now if only they had a PVR-350-equivalent...

-JAC