PVR-250 image quality -- Re: [mythtv-users] TV Wonder Pro

[Robert Denier]

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>Get the PVR-250 from Hauppage. It's a good solid card, and does hardware
>encoding, thus less CPU is used on the box, and you get higher quality
>recordings, 
>
I'm curious about this "higher quality recordings" phrase.  I've seen it 
a few times,
yet I'm not one to automatically believe that a card does better just 
because it does
mpeg 2 compression.  (I'm assuming a 150 would have the same quality if 
one got
that working.)

Has anyone ever done a direct comparison between a 250 and other ordinary
bt87x capture cards?  One would think it was the ultimate quality of the 
A/D
circuitry that was the key...