<div>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. </div>
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>Greg Mischel Smith</div>
<div>KCMO<br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 10:37 AM, James Sumners <<a href="mailto:james.sumners@gmail.com">james.sumners@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Based on the discussion in [1], I think the pcHDTV-5500 isn't going to<br>work for me. I am about 25-32 miles from my local stations'<br>
transmitters, and have a lot of trees causing multipath issues. So my<br>signal is not great. My Olevia 232v television gets all of the<br>stations I want to watch without fail (well, weather permitting), but<br>the 5500's playback has video and audio glitches. The mythfrontend log<br>
shows repeated frame errors and bad audio blocks. The system CPU is an<br>Athlon64 X2 4000+ so I know it can decode the stream.<br><br>My question is this. Does anyone know how much better, or worse, the<br>reception might be with the WinTV-HVR-1800? It sounds like the digital<br>
tuner chip is at least one generation old, but I don't know if it is<br>newer than the one used by the 5500.<br><br><br>[1] -- <a href="http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/325827" target="_blank">http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/325827</a><br>
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is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become<br>drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted."<br><br>Missionaria Protectiva, Text QIV (decto)<br>CH:D 59<br>_______________________________________________<br>
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