[mythtv-users] Recording PVR-500 Question.

[Greg Woods]

On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 08:09 -0700, Daris Drake wrote:
>  Yes, you 
> can record two shows at once, or record one and watch another, or do PIP, 
> etc. My issue is the signal splitter inside the card: it sucks.

I'm no expert on these things, but I can report that I have had exactly
the opposite experience. I think it depends a lot on your particular
setup.

At one point, I was using my desktop as my backend. It was at the end of
a 25' coax cable run (hardly an ideal setup). I ended up purchasing a
PVR-500 at least partly because my attempts to use both a PVR-150 and an
HD3000 (in V4L mode at the time) failed miserably. The signal quality
was terrible, with or without a signal booster. But if I removed the
splitter and used either of the cards by itself, it worked fine.  When
the splitter and those two cards were replaced by a single PVR-500 using
its internal splitter, everything worked great, suggesting that at least
in this instance, the splitter inside the PVR-500 worked much better
than the external splitter did. YMMV.

--Greg