[mythtv-users] Re: Anyone compaired Pundit Svideo to PVR-350 TV out?

[Gert van der Knokke]

Malcolm wrote:

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>From: "Steve Rubano" <srubano at ccap.net>
>Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 12:04 PM
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>>>I don't want to use the 350's TV out anymore because of stability issues.
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>>What kind of stability issues are you having? Currently my setup is as
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>Oh yeah the other MAJOR issue is I can't play DVDs with the 350.  Something
>to do with it's frame buffer.  Video is slow and jerky and the sound skips.
>That was my other main reason for wanting to use some sort of other TV out
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>I don't understand why people put out "media" type boxes with sub standard
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Maybe because it depends on what kind of tv you are displaying the 
ouptut of the Pundit.

I have a Pundit too, connected to both a professional 17" monitor and an 
rather low-res video only Sharp LCD projector lXV-C1E (currently hooked 
up with coax to the Composite output due to long distance..) and it 
produces a very usable (say good colour, crisp contrast) picture about 
1.8 meters wide on my wall.
The monitor is for daylight viewing and for doing 'computer' stuff on 
the Pundit.

For a few months I hopped on the mythtv bandwagon with the Pundit and a 
bttv card but since I bought a PVR-250 I split the system in a backend 
server and the Pundit as frontend.
Even on the low res projector the images were much better with the PVR 
than with the bttv card.
Comparing TV images from a video hooked up to the projector (using this 
VCR as a tuner) I must say that the image coming from the Pundit is 
fine. The fact that it doesn't do interlace is no issue on the projector 
I use. (is this a hardware or a software problem of the SiS chipset or 
the encoder  ? Most older VGA cards already had an interlace bit, so it 
should be in the VGA standard ?)

Furthermore, the Pundit is offered here in Holland for about 150 Euro, 
so I don't think it's fair to  expect HDTV for that. What about hooking 
up Plasma or LCD to the DVI output ?


Gert