[mythtv-users] Suggestions for choice of hybrid tuners, probably USB based

[Larry Finger]

On 04/14/2013 10:07 PM, Stephen Worthington wrote:
>
> I do not know of any USB analogue or hybrid tuners that do the MPEG
> encoding onboard as the PVR-500 does.  If you have a modern CPU (eg
> quad core) that might not matter, but with an older motherboard you
> may run out of CPU.

The CPU is a dual-core AMD processor running at 3.1 GHz. The machine is used 
mostly for running MythTV. The MB supports AM3/AM3+ processors, and I could 
upgrade to a quad-core unit if necessary.