Posted by Bob on 03/06/06 14:12

On Sun, 5 Mar 2006 23:10:34 -0800, "Ken Moiarty" <kmoiarty35@shaw.ca>
wrote:

>>>Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-500.

>> That model has one tuner for recording and one for viewing. I do not
>> see how it can record three separate TV programs at one time.

>Who ever claimed it can record three programs at one time!? It has two
>tuners.

I thought the OP said it had three tuners per card.

>Both tuners can be engaged so as to record two programs at one time.

Cool! I need to look at this offering closer.

I assume that the software allows you to split the TV signal so you
can watch a program you are not recording, or watch a program you have
previously recorded - like with a conventional DVDR. You would not
need a tuner for that because the TV would tune it.

>If you're happy with the 2.6 Celeron powered system, that's fine. But your
>dreaming if you think the CPU itself is just as powerful as a 2.6 Pentium
>CPU.

I never said that.

>I can't comment on your son's 3.4 P4. Your subjective impression of
>its performance compared to your own system may be flawed or it may be
>right,

It is right - we conducted the tests properly.

>However, when all other factors are
>equal, you can't get around the fact that a Celeron does painfully less
>processing per clock cycle than does an uncompromised Pentium.

The test we relied on to benchmark this was DVD Shrink converting an
on-disk ISO to DVD format with about 50% compression. It took
essentially the same time.

Maybe that's because the process is calculation-intensive and
disk-intensive.


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