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erm some link not working properly.
Ok, here a card Im thinking about...

hxxp://www.hauppauge.com/pages/products/data_pvr500mce.html

Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-500 MCE
Dual Tuner so I can watch and record at same time. costs about £75

Anyone forsee any problems with this card?
 
Davido123 said:
erm some link not working properly.
Ok, here a card Im thinking about...
hxxp://www.hauppauge.com/pages/products/data_pvr500mce.html
Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-500 MCE
Dual Tuner so I can watch and record at same time. costs about £75
Anyone forsee any problems with this card?
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Yes, it's an analog card, which uses crappy hardware MPEG compression.
 
señor ding dong said:
Yes, it's an analog card, which uses crappy hardware MPEG compression.
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Cheers for the headsup;)
Then what cards does cable HD digital TV, easy to use?

I am back to these:

hxxp://www.dvbshop.net/product_info.php/language/en/info/p279_SATELCO-EasyWatch-HDTV-PCI--DVB-C-.html

hxxp://www.dvbshop.net/product_info.php/info/p325_Technotrend-Budget-C-1500HD-High-Definition--MPEG2-4-.html

Your choice would be and why?:)
 
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Davido123 said:
erm some link not working properly.
Ok, here a card Im thinking about...
hxxp://www.hauppauge.com/pages/products/data_pvr500mce.html
Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-500 MCE
Dual Tuner so I can watch and record at same time. costs about £75
Anyone forsee any problems with this card?
Click to expand...

Is this card not a analogue only card, so it would only be suitable for analogue tv and not digital TV ?
 
Davido123 said:
Cheers for the headsup;)
Then what cards does cable HD digital TV, easy to use?
I am back to these:
hxxp://www.dvbshop.net/product_info.php/language/en/info/p279_SATELCO-EasyWatch-HDTV-PCI--DVB-C-.html
hxxp://www.dvbshop.net/product_info.php/info/p325_Technotrend-Budget-C-1500HD-High-Definition--MPEG2-4-.html
Your choice would be and why?:)
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My choice was the TT1500... because it was free. :) It's a good cheap card, easy to set up, and if you read through the forum a bit, you'll find it's quite a popular one. You can get it slightly cheaper if you go for the non-HD version. It's the exact same card, the only difference is that the HD version comes with HD MPEG software decoders/codecs, which you can find online for free, if you know where to look.
 
señor ding dong said:
My choice was the TT1500... because it was free. :) It's a good cheap card, easy to set up, and if you read through the forum a bit, you'll find it's quite a popular one. You can get it slightly cheaper if you go for the non-HD version. It's the exact same card, the only difference is that the HD version comes with HD MPEG software decoders/codecs, which you can find online for free, if you know where to look.
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Then a TT1500 non HD version it is. Buying now and thanks;)
 
Davido123 said:
So if price isnt an issue..whats is the best card I could get?
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if price ain't an issue i'm using a floppydtv with a icecrypt cam and au funcard with vista and no probs. full 2 week epg - full hd - no delay when changing channels.but the card is a bit pricey compared to the tt1500.
 
What full hd?
At a budget card for dvb-c without mpeg decoder HDTV is a problem of your pc and the right codec.
Cards with a own mpeg4 H264 decoder are not on the market till yet
BBC HD is using mpeg2 HDTV..
 
Davido123 said:
erm some link not working properly.
Ok, here a card Im thinking about...
Click to expand...

The link is fully working.
It looks like someone botched something at the forum defaults.
Recently there was a similar problem in a other thread with supposed not working links.
 
TT1500 HD version ( I know shouldnt have paid for the HD version) has just arrvied. Play time begin tomrorow:)
 
why wait til tomorrow - do it now - do it now........ LOL
 
Ok card installed, with drviers etc... on win XP pro OS.

I installed the drviers and appications which came on the CD. Card is working as I manualy entered a feq and scanned it, finding all the BBC channels.

Problem is they kept freezing all the time every few secs.

This line I normally have my living room dreambo on and this also has a booster fitted....any solution to the freezing ever few secs?

I have also just purchased DvbViewer.

My family is use to using mediaportal on the mediaserver. In Mediaportals setup I told it I now had a dvc card and every time I tell it to scan for channels, mediaportal crashes:( EVERY time.

Basically I want mediaportal to be the software to use.


Also I need to know what else I need for decoding channels and how I set it up if someone can advise ;)
 
Update:

Im ready to through this card out the bloody window now:)

Mediaportal continueally crahed as it scans for the channels.
MythTV is no windows based.
And GBPVR doesnt reconise the TT1500.

What other applications is there or setup?
 
A application cannot solve signal problems.
If the signal is too strong or too weak you can get such crashing.
 
Davido123 said:
Update:
Im ready to through this card out the bloody window now:)
Mediaportal continueally crahed as it scans for the channels.
MythTV is no windows based.
And GBPVR doesnt reconise the TT1500.
What other applications is there or setup?
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d/l mytheatre and if u can get a service file from a dbox for ur area do a manual scan. this should prove ur signal strength is ok...these cards can be frustrating and u want to take 1 step at a time...took me months to set up vista the way i want it
good luck m8
 
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