[mythtv-users] pvr150 or pvr500

[Phil Bridges]

Jarod Wilson wrote:
> On Wednesday 23 March 2005 14:44, John Williams wrote:
> 
>>On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 16:36:32 -0600, Matt <skd5aner at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>>I'd definitely go
>>>>500, since you don't even need a splitter to get both tuners fed (the
>>>>signal is split internally).
>>>
>>>Jarod, can you elaborate on this?  Does this mean that if I want to
>>>use both of the tuners I can run a single RG6 cable to one of the
>>>inputs, then it'll split the signal off to the other tuner on the card
>>>itself?
>>
>>That is exactly what it means. Run your Coax in to the single input
>>and both tuners are connected.
> 
> 
> Yup. Note that there are two coax inputs on the back of these cards, but one 
> is for FM radio, the other does indeed feed both on-board tuners, all 
> splitting done internally. The rear of my 150 and 500 are actually completely 
> indistinguishable.
> 

How does the internally-split cable look?  I'd love to ditch my external 
splitter.