tv card selection (1 Viewer)

[hallon]

i'm looking for a simple tv-card thar works with MP.

any recomendations?

i've looked at the following cards:
PINNACLE PCTV PMC 100I
PINNACLE PCTV pro
hauppauge PVR-150
hauppauge PVR-150MCE looks good
any other card i should consider?

the pinnacle 100i is half the price.... is it good enough?

whats the difference between PVR-150MCE and PVR-150? beside the remote and fm-radio...

 

[Khris]

If you're planning on using MP with basic cable, I'd definately suggest spending the extra $$ to buy a Hauppauge PVR-500 dual tuner card so that you can watch, and record two separate programs. You'll wonder how you ever did without it.

I've been running mine now for almost a year and I love it! I plan on putting a 2nd 500PVR into my MP box to give me 4 tuners. The anticipation is already making me breath heavy! LOL

 

[lugiber]

Before you buy anything make sure your card is on the list of supported capture cards available here:

http://www.maisenbachers.de/dokuw/install:capturecards:start

I'm not sure about the pinnacle cards but my hauppauge pvr-250 has never given me any trouble. I'd go for a hauppauge card if i were you.

Khris you are absolutley right. Two tuners are definetly better than one, and four is even better!

/Peter

 

[guytpetj]

I advise you to go with Hauppauge cards, they have the best feature support in MP for analog tuners and are very tweakable. it's well worth taking the Hauppauge PVR500MCE.

I have in my HTPC:
Hauppauge PVR250 MCE - good tuner
Hauppauge PVR500 MCE - excelent tuner(s)
Winfast PVR2000 - the lesser of my tuners

Peter

 

[hallon]

ok thanks!

but i don't need a dual tuner...

i have read the list of supported capture cards a few times. and both pinnacle 100i and hauppauge pvr-150 are supported.
according to this list the hauppauge pvr-150 is a h/w type and pinnacle 100i is not, what's this?

how about the tv quality? is pinnacle 100i good enough? is hauppauge pvr-150 better?

 

[hallon]

another question, will hauppauge pvr-150mce work with windows xp?

 

[lugiber]

i have read the list of supported capture cards a few times. and both pinnacle 100i and hauppauge pvr-150 are supported.
according to this list the hauppauge pvr-150 is a h/w type and pinnacle 100i is not, what's this?

If the pinnacle is not a h/w card then don't buy it!
A h/w card uses only the tv card to compress and save recorded tv to your harddrive. A card that doesn't have hardware encoding will most likley use most of the juice from your processor while recording/watching tv. I'm not even sure that timeshifting (to pause live tv) is possible with s/w cards.

/Peter

 

[hallon]

just as I thought then...

I will buy the hauppauge pvr-150 then =)

thanks for your help...

 

[LordMessi]

another question, will hauppauge pvr-150mce work with windows xp?

Yes, PVR-150mce will work with XP SP2

http://www.maisenbachers.de/dokuw/install:capturecards:hauppauge_wintv_pvr_150mce

 

[hallon]

ok but I'll buy the pvr-150, I want the remote....