I have finally ditched sky and am looking for a TVTuner card to record freeview via DVB-T. i am looking at the HVR-2210 card and was wondering about the recording type. Its says that it records in Mpeg2 whereas the more expensive 4400 records in h264 also.
Any downside to mpeg2 recording?

so at this stage im looking at the 2210 and use next PVR as the backend and XBMC 11 as the front end.
not sure if its worth upgrading to XBMC 12 to use its PVR functions?

also my old HTPC (e4300 core 2) is now only running 1 gig of ram due to 1 stick dyeing. is 1 gig going to be an issue bottle necking the PVR functions?? XBMC runs fine at the mo on 1 gig in windows 7 pro.