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<blockquote data-quote="Owlsroost" data-source="post: 1234586" data-attributes="member: 83973"><p>One thing to think about if you are moving from dedicated Freeview PVR boxes is that MP does not have the equivalent of 'Accurate Recording' i.e. automatically tracking and adjusting the recording times if a programme is moved after a scheduled recording is set up. That said, this doesn't happen very often, and there is always iPlayer etc. as a backup.</p><p></p><p>As JimCatMP suggests, you can easily run an MP 'PVR' on a fairly low-power modern PC - my HTPC is an <a href="http://www.techradar.com/reviews/pc-mac/pc-mac-desktops/hp-260-g1-1298658/review" target="_blank">HP 260 G1</a> (Celeron 2957U) 'net-top' machine with two cheap USB DVB-T2 (HD) tuner sticks attached. About the size of a paper-back novel and almost silent. I find the picture quality of the modern Intel GPUs to be excellent, on both MPEG2 video (SD Freeview) and H.264 (HD Freeview).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Owlsroost, post: 1234586, member: 83973"] One thing to think about if you are moving from dedicated Freeview PVR boxes is that MP does not have the equivalent of 'Accurate Recording' i.e. automatically tracking and adjusting the recording times if a programme is moved after a scheduled recording is set up. That said, this doesn't happen very often, and there is always iPlayer etc. as a backup. As JimCatMP suggests, you can easily run an MP 'PVR' on a fairly low-power modern PC - my HTPC is an [URL='http://www.techradar.com/reviews/pc-mac/pc-mac-desktops/hp-260-g1-1298658/review']HP 260 G1[/URL] (Celeron 2957U) 'net-top' machine with two cheap USB DVB-T2 (HD) tuner sticks attached. About the size of a paper-back novel and almost silent. I find the picture quality of the modern Intel GPUs to be excellent, on both MPEG2 video (SD Freeview) and H.264 (HD Freeview). [/QUOTE]
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