[mythtv-users] Card That Gives The Best Quality Picture?

[Tom Lichti]

Armblessed wrote:
> 
> 
> Hey there, guys & gals
> 
> I've finally gotten my MythTV box running.  It was an epic battle and 
> with the exception of a stupid question or two (thanks again, Mike! ^_^) 
> , I'm pretty satisfied with the installation process of MythTV.
> Now that I've gotten to use it for a few days, I started to notice the 
> picture quality of the Haupauge PVR-500 card I have.  I can say that it 
> is pretty...well... "meh".   Compared to the picture quality of the
> backups of my DVDs, the picture this card gives for my cable is simply 
> underwhelming.  I've heard alot of people talk bad about the picture 
> quality of the card I've chosen so I know it's not just my cable 
> signal.  That being said, I loved the challenge of this install so much 
> that I want to build another MythTV box but I don't really want to end 
> up with the same less-than-stellar picture quality from my next card I 
> select. Dual tuners aside, What would this group think would be the card 
> that has the best picture quality that could replace the functionality 
> of my PVR-500?
> 

I've read that the 500's use a Samsung tuner that is very picky about 
the signal, once you get it amplified correctly, it works great.

Tom