[mythtv-users] Myth vs. Sage vs. Beyond

[Kevin Kuphal]

WiFi Fun wrote:
> Ed, I feel your pain. But I fear no love will come from this list. I
> spent the last 2 days fighting with ivtv issues on my older two older
> pvr250's and on older pvr500 card. I have had the 500 for over a year,
> and the 250's are a couple of years old. There has been some ongoing
> issues with them that prompted me to upgrade my mythtv system. In the
> end, after lots and lots of time spent fighting this and testing the
> cards, I have come to the conclusion the ivtv just can't hang. The
> same cards used in crappy windows produce stable clean images. Image
> quality from the same source, and the same cards is noticeably
> cleaner, sharper, and less noisy using windows. I tried Sage and
> Beyond yesterday, and hate them both. They are as ugly as myth, but
> for 1/10 the functionality. I think for my purposes, I really love
> myth and admire the work done to make it what it is. But I am sick of
> giving up quality. I hate windows so much that I will not be using
> BTV, or Sage, so I have called and ordered the DVR's from Verizon
> Fios. These are crap compared to Myth, but with these to take care of
> my wife and family, and BitTorrent TV sites to take care of my
> watching needs, I think I am jumping ship.
>   
Your problems have nothing to do with MythTV and everything to do with 
your hardware and its driver support in Linux.   It is like blaming 
SageTV because Windows has crappy drivers for card X.

Kevin