EVGA NVTV Dual TV Tuner $136.79 w free shipping

[dew042]

By far the cheapest i have seen for a dual tuner card with hw mpeg encoding for recording, and it only takes up one slot:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0006OD048/

Works with MCE2005 as well for recording multiple shows at once. Reportedly comes with nVidia's DVD decoder neccesary for MCE use and it is upgradable.

dew.

 

[nomadh]

I wonder how similar to the hauppauge card it is? Will it take the same drivers etc? Now that would be a HOT Deal!
Although I guess its still hot for MCE users

 

[darkswordsman17]

No offense but why would you want it to take the same drivers? Hauppage's drivers are far from great.

 

[dew042]

Originally posted by: darkswordsman17
No offense but why would you want it to take the same drivers? Hauppage's drivers are far from great.

agreed -- hauppauge's infrequent driver updates have been a probelm for me. nvidia has consistantly released good driver sets through the years....

dew.

 

[kamranziadar]

Expensive

 

[dew042]

Originally posted by: kamranziadar
Expensive

thanks for the enlightening response.

 

[zinkpig]

any one know if it works with sage tv ?

 

[farscapesg1]

Warning!

While the price is nice for a dual tuner, I just wanted to notify everyone that the card is designed to work ONLY with MCE. It does not work with XP or windows 2000 (as noted in this thread.

Here is a post on the EVGA boards where one of their admins even state that it only works with MCE.

Supposedly, this is a well documented issue.

 

[nomadh]

I haven't had a big problem with drivers on my pvr250. And even with problems they aren't as bad as everything else . At least thats the reports. I guess my main point is if the card is compatable enough you could hopefully have 3rd party and linux support. Thats why I bought the 250. I have a choice of op systems and over a dozen software packages. If its true its mce only that would be pretty limiting. MCE isn't even on my long list, not to mention the short list.

 

[farscapesg1]

I've got a PVR-150 that I purchased with plans of building an HTPC and haven't had any problems with the drivers. In fact, the card works really well. SageTV and BeyondTV picked it up right away. My only problems have been getting the correct codecs for the video to look good, and that would happen with any TV card.

Now if I can just get a case, hard drive, and video card with decent svideo out (only have a standard TV so no HDTV for me) I can ditch my VCR and DVD player.