DIVCO Fusion HDTV5 RT Gold vs. Lite

[srothwell]

For the purposes of SageTV, is there any real difference between the DIVO Fusion HDTV5 RT Gold versus the RT Lite?

I have a RT Gold and have been VERY pleased with it. Before fall TV season, I want another HD card. The Lite is $50 less than the Gold. According to the DIVCO web site, they use the exact same tuner but the chipset is different and there is less software (who cares for Sage).

Any opinions or experiences are greatly welcome.

thanks!

[mayamaniac]

I'm interested in knowing the differences between the two cards also. Since HD is mpeg2 streams, I read on other threads that the differences are in how each card can reliably capture the signal, meaning less or more interruptions. So the Gold probably has better components, but is it noticably better than the Lite version?

Also hows the Lite version compared to the Avermedia A180? They are about the same price.

[paulbeers]

Looking at a side by side comparison, they appear to have the same tuner/chipset. The big difference is in what is packaged with. The Gold series comes with the dvico remote, ulead 8se, and the breakout cable (looks to be much like the cable that came with my original all-in-wonder) to hook up video input devices. Unless you want the remote, I would say for Sage purposes there would be no reason to buy the Gold version. I think I remember when I was buying my fusionlite that the SDTV capture chipset was inferior to the Gold, but neither use a hardware encoder for SDTV capture which made that difference a non-factor.