[mythtv-users] pcHDTV-5500 reception versus WinTV-HVR-1800?

[Greg Mischel Smith]

I have the WinTV-HVR-1600 on my Windows machine and I have not been very
impressed with it. I decided to purchase two pcHDTV-5500 for my MythTV
system and I have been very impressed thus far.

Nonetheless, the thing I found that makes the biggest difference is the
antenna I use. With the right antenna, I can get a clear signal on both, but
with the wrong type of antenna for my area, the MythTV system using
pcHDTV-5500 still shows a better picture than my WinTV-1600 using the WinTV
software. But again, I don't have any direct experience with Hauppauge cards
in Linux.

Greg Mischel Smith
KCMO

On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 10:37 AM, James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Based on the discussion in [1], I think the pcHDTV-5500 isn't going to
> work for me. I am about 25-32 miles from my local stations'
> transmitters, and have a lot of trees causing multipath issues. So my
> signal is not great. My Olevia 232v television gets all of the
> stations I want to watch without fail (well, weather permitting), but
> the 5500's playback has video and audio glitches. The mythfrontend log
> shows repeated frame errors and bad audio blocks. The system CPU is an
> Athlon64 X2 4000+ so I know it can decode the stream.
>
> My question is this. Does anyone know how much better, or worse, the
> reception might be with the WinTV-HVR-1800? It sounds like the digital
> tuner chip is at least one generation old, but I don't know if it is
> newer than the one used by the 5500.
>
>
> [1] -- http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/325827
>
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