On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 11:40:31AM -0500, Michael Haan wrote: > On 1/13/06, Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Greets - > > > > I've been following MythTV lists for a while and seem to recall that > > the DVICO Fusion 5 cards have a newer generation HDTV tuner than the > > HD3000 card. Is this correct? If so, can anyone speak to improvements > > due to the newer tuner, such as picture quality, channel locking, > > channel switching etc? > > > > My primary use of either card will be for ATSC only. At this point > > I'm leaning towards the DVICO Fusion 5 Lite simply because it is more > > current hardware and appears to have good in kernel support. I was > > also pleased by how fast it seemed that in kernel support came along > > after the hardware was released. (Seemed like only a 2 or 3 months!) > > > > -- > > Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > AIM: BlueCame1 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > mythtv-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > > > I'm interested in the answer to this as well, as I have both cards and the > 3000 is having..... issues.
The Fusion 5 Gold does have a fifth generation tuner, but if I remember right the Fusion 5 Lite and the pcHDTV HD-3000 both have 4th generation. The difference in generations from 4-5 is multi-path reception and some attempts to better handle receiving signals when the antenna is in motion (ie, a car). I personally have 3 HD-2000's and 4 HD-3000's. The HD-3000's are slightly better than the HD-2000's in tuning, but every one of my cards works perfectly and I only have the HD-3000's because the HD-2000's can't tune QAM. If you're having problems locking, fix your antenna and cable, not your card. Also the signal % received is about as truthful as bogomips. If you rely strictly on that signal % then you're comparing apples and oranges. Fact is, the only way to do a good signal check is compare number of packets received over the course of an entire year, in every type of rain, snow, wind, and humidity setting. The fusion cards development has actually been going on for almost 4 years, but this is the first card they've had good luck with. Kernel support was easier to do because the card uses DVB, that cards like the pcHDTV HD-3000 and air2pc helped push along last year. Picture quality is a mute point, the card has 0 to do with this, unless you're using the SD tuner on the card, and in that case the pcHDTV with SVGA, composite, and NTSC inputs is a good choice, but few use it for anything but HD. Channel locking has more to do with your antenna and wiring than anything else. If you want to get nit picky, Myth slightly favors the pchdtv cards locking sequence and handles things better than other cards, but this is only a problem on some cards that don't report channel and signal lock correctly. In 95% of cases, wireing and antenna will make the difference in reception, not the card. In a few rare instances one card may be better. I know of an air2pc working better in some areas of the country with some frequencies and the pchdtv working better in others. There's no way to predict what's going to work best in your area, so focus on wireing and antenna, not the card. Every last card made is unique, and will favor one specific frequency more than another. Everyone can pick whichever card they want, but you should know there's only one HDTV tuner card company giving back to the community and providing hardware or paying kernel, myth, distributions and software developers to help improve HDTV under Linux, and who's purpose is to help this community, so I'm biast and support pcHDTV more, even if it isn't the cheapest. The HD-3000 has the best QAM support and it's OTA tuner is good enough you're not very likely to see another card do better in most cases. --Brandon _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
