Got the dish connected back up today. And after 4-5 hours of trying to configure the HD PVR, the receiver, and Beyond TV. I have finally got it working. Quality on Live TV is amazing. I seriously couldn't tell the difference. However is sooo slow to load a show. Takes a good 10 - 15 seconds. But once watching it is great. Watching Live TV also loads one core @ 3GHz 100%. Pretty demanding.
Now recording is entirely different. Since the HD PVR does hardware h264 encoding, cpu usage is 1-2%. Recorded quality is great. However so far I've only watched the uncompressed 8GB/hour ones. I have yet to watch one after compression though.
IMO both Beyond TV and the HD PVR are well worth it, if you want to record HDTV and do not have a standalone PVR.
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