[mythtv-users] PVR-250 vs PVR-250MCE

[Scott Pouliot]

I've got a 250MCE ($88 from eBay) and it's running fine on my RH9 machine
without bleeding edge drivers....

I've also got 2 PVR-250's and they all seem to get along just fine.  Once I
get a new case...I'll be putting all 3 in the same machine, but for the
moment I have 2 PVR-250's in one box...and the MCE in another.

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From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Bryan Ware
Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 2:31 PM
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] PVR-250 vs PVR-250MCE

I would use the pvr250. It doesn't require any change to your setup. The
250MCE requires the bleeding edge drivers for ivtv. I just went through
some fun stuff getting it working with a pvr250.

Bryan
On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 13:57, asmussen at cox.net wrote:
> I am getting ready to add a second tuner card to my backend box. I'm going
to have the cable box hooked up to one of them using an ir-blaster to change
channels, and I intend to just pipe basic cable into the 2nd tuner. Since
95% of my recordings are off of the basic cable channels, I figure this
ought to all but eliminate scheduling conflicts, and make watching live TV
much easier. What I'm trying to figure out is which card to put in as my
second tuner. I'm currently running a PVR-350 as my tuner card, although I
am not using the TV out on it. That works pretty well, so I figured I'd add
a 250 for my second tuner. The MCE version of the card costs about the same
as the non-MCE version, and I'm wondering which one I should buy. I have
seen that a lot of people are having issues getting the MCE cards to work,
but I imagine that is a temporary issue, and that once the 1.10 drivers are
stable, the MCE card shouldn't be a problem. However, if there aren't any
benefits to usin!
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>  the MCE card over the regular card, I figure I might as well just get the
plain old 250 and not have to deal with getting the MCE card to work. So my
question is basically this: What does the 250-MCE card have going for it
that would make me want to buy it instead of a normal 250 to put in my
mythtv box?
> 
> Shawn Asmussen
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