Hauppauge PVR-150 (model 1045) with remote (Hardware MPeg2) - $39.99 after rebate + tax

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sonuster said:

CompUSA has the WinTV-PVR 150 for $39.99 After $30 Rebate.
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Get a few more % back by clicking through various deal websites...hint....one initialed in Topic Summary!

From CompUSA...

Watch, Pause, Record TV on your PC, in a window or full screen!
Digital VCR, too! Record your TV shows and home movies to disk using hardware MPEG-2 compression!
High quality MPEG-2 hardware encoder used when recording, so your PC continues to run at full speed while recording videos to disk.
Turn your TV shows and home videos into DVD or CD. Includes Ulead's DVD MovieFactory for authoring and burning DVD movies!
Includes MPEG editor, TV scheduler and IR remote control!
WinTV-PVR-150 has these great features :
Watch TV on your PC screen using a 125 channel cable ready TV tuner. Surf the net while you watch TV on your PC screen!
Record your TV shows to disk using the built-in hardware MPEG-2 encoder. Uses from 1-2 Gigabytes per hour of recorded video. While recording, the WinTV-PVRs' hardware MPEG encoder does all the work so your PC continues to run at full speed!
Pause your live TV shows with instant replay, fast forward and rewind.
Composite/S-Video and audio inputs, to connect to VCR or camcorders. Turn your home video tapes into MPEG movies, then burn them onto CD or DVD!
dbx-TV stereo decoder, for great TV sound. (Nicam stereo on PAL models)
WinTV-Scheduler, so you can schedule your TV recordings on a daily, weekly or once only schedule. With link to TitanTV.com, the on-line electronic program guide.
WinTV-Editor, so you can cut and trim your videos without losing video quality!
Ulead® DVD MovieFactory 3? to author and burn DVDs, Video CD's or S-VCD's. Play them on your home DVDS2 player!
WinTV-PVR-150 puts TV watching under your control!
Watch TV on your PC screen (in a window or full screen), digitally record your TV shows, or pause live TV and create your own instant replay.

Create your own Digital Video Recorder!
The WinTV-PVR-150 turns your PC into a digital video recorder. Record TV program or home videos to disk, play them back to your PC screen or burn them onto DVD. With data rates from 4.4MBits/sec up to 12Mbits/sec (or as low as 1 Mbit/sec with VCD formats), you decide how much hard disk space your videos will consume. At DVD quality, a typical one hour TV show will take 2 gigabytes of hard disk space.

WinTV-PVR includes WinTV-Scheduler and WinTV-Editor.
Trim your videos, cut out segments, put them back together, all without losing any video quality with our WinTV-Editor! With WinTV-Scheduler, you can control your TV recording on a daily, weekly or random schedule. Automatically record your favorite programs so you?ll never miss your TV shows again!

WinTV-PVR's pause feature gives you control of what you watch in your WinTV window. Get personal "instant replay" to stop the action when you want to analyze a key scene. Instantly rewind and replay the action again. You're in control with WinTV-PVR!

Ever been called to the phone, had to answer the door, or went for a snack and missed part of the big match? With WinTV-PVR, you'll never miss the action again. Just click on WinTV-PVR's "One Touch Pause" button to pause your TV program, click again to continue watching where you left off. Then fast forward to catch up to the live broadcast.

Record your TV programs or home videos onto DVD or CD, and play them on your DVD player!
If you have a DVD burner in your PC, use the WinTV-PVR?s MPEG files with the included Ulead DVD MovieFactory? to author your own home DVD?s. Turn your TV shows or home videos into DVD movies!

Technically speaking
WinTV-PVR-150 contains a high quality 10-bit video digitizer with 4 line adaptive comb filter to reduce video noise, plus a highly integrated MPEG-1/2 hardware encoder. WinTV-PVR-150 can record full screen TV or video at data rates from 2.5 to 12 Mbits/sec from TV, VCR or camcorder. The encoded MPEG-2 video is sent over the PCI bus, where it is stored on the PCs hard disk. The video can also be played back to the PC screen while recording.

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Platform: PC
Internal/External: Internal
Slot Type: PCI
In the Box: WinTV-PVR-150 PCI bus card with 125 channel cable-ready TV tuner, hardware MPEG-2 encoder, dbx-TV stereo, S-Video/composite plus audio inputs
Infra-red remote control transmitter and receiver
WinTV CD-ROM includes:
WinTV2000 application for TV in a window, Program Pause, TV record and playback
WinTV-Scheduler for scheduling your TV recording
WinTV MPEG editor for high quality cutting and pasting of your video movies
Ulead® DVD MovieFactory?, to author your own videos on DVD or CD*
Installation and reference manual

System Requirements: Pentium® III processor 733MHz or faster
Microsoft® Windows® XP/2000
Free PCI slot
Sound card
CD-RW or DVD writer for burning Video CD's, S-VCD's or DVD's (optional)

 

[GTFan]

Nice price! This one includes the remote and has hardware encoding, for anyone interested. Much less CPU usage when recording TV.

 

[Delbert]

Anyone know if this will work directly with MCE or Vista?

In other words, other than the remote, is there a difference between
This PVR-150
and
This one for Media Center?

 

[Spydermag68]

From the box it says that it will work with MCE.

 

[garrettgjb]

I think the PVR-150MCE is the only one that works with it.

 

[lhotdeals]

Can someone confirm that this card does not work in MCE?

Thanks a lot in advance

 

[dclive]

That's incorrect. You don't need the "MCE" version (which is just a marketing change) to work with MCE2005 - you just need to download the right driver from the Hauppauge site, ensure you have a DVD decoder software product installed, and (you should get) the MCE2004/MCE2005 remote from Microsoft.

Check greenbutton.com - people all over there are using the PVR150s.

I have a PVR500 and an HP MPEG2 card in mine, plus the HDTV wonder, for a total of 3 analog and 1 digital tuners, all happily running in MCE2005 (>2 analog tuners due to about 15 minutes spent with a minor registry hack).

All running in an older Compaq AMD XP 3000+ with 640MB of RAM, a 40GB drive for the OS, and a 500GB drive for TV.

Flawless.

 

[jwsw]

Originally posted by: lhotdeals
Can someone confirm that this card does not work in MCE?

Thanks a lot in advance

This is the 2.0 hardware version, and the box says it's compatible with Windows XP Home, Pro, Media Center Edition, and even Windows 2000. Also from the box:

"Windows XP Media Center Edition compatible. Add up to 2 WinTV-PVR-150's to your Media Center Edition PC!"

 

[Crucial]

The MCE kit comes with a remote and reciever that works with media center. IIRC this remote doesn't work with MCE but it's still a good deal for a single tuner.

 

[CupCak3]

looks like sold out for delivery for me

 

[Modular]

I picked up this card from the Egg a few months back for $90...it's a grear card with some sweet image quality. I'd recommend GB-PVR fro anyone not using Windows MCE. It's the best, free PVR software out there.

 

[Jawo]

Has anyone gotten the IR blaster to work with Verizon's FiOS tv? I got mine off the forums and can't seem to find the right code, even after updating the software. My Archos pvr 500 has no problem controling the STB.

 

[scootermaster]

Dang! And I just got in on the Google checkout/Buy.com deal earlier, but that doesn't have the remote. I've got GB-PVR and HIP (remote interface software) running with my old Remote wonder (god how I DON'T miss my ATI AIW 9000 software). Weirdly, HIP screws with the "g" buttin on my bluetooth keyboard, but that's neither here nor there.

The point is, I may have to get another of these!

Thanks!

 

[jalaram]

Does anyone know if this works with DScaler or not?

 

[mugs]

edit: nvm

 

[Qwest]

i could look this up on a PVR forum...but does anyone know if this is possible?

Coax cable --- cable box --- component cable --- TV
and...
TV--- S Video --- PVR Card --- componet cable --- TV

 

[Trianon]

Jumped on it, great deal!

 

[cparker]

I just picked one up at cusa super store on 57th in Manhattan, NYC. There were a few of them left on the shelf. Also the other NYC stores seem to have them as well.

 

[cparent]

so this one comes with a remote but no antenna? The one at circuit city comes with an antenna but no remote.

 

[cparent]

oh my bad. this is the PCI version. no the USB

 

[GTFan]

Originally posted by: Qwest
i could look this up on a PVR forum...but does anyone know if this is possible?

Coax cable --- cable box --- component cable --- TV
and...
TV--- S Video --- PVR Card --- componet cable --- TV

1st yes, second no. Not sure what you're wanting to do with #2, but most TV's do not have S-Vid out. And PC's do not do component out, generally speaking.

What are you wanting to do?

 

[DefDC]

bump for great deal!

 

[cheetoden]

I could never understand why live tv looks so grainy at full screen.

 

[wizzack]

Originally posted by: cparker
I just picked one up at cusa super store on 57th in Manhattan, NYC. There were a few of them left on the shelf. Also the other NYC stores seem to have them as well.

Yea, I got mine at 37th and 5th. They still had a few more.

Originally posted by: cparent
so this one comes with a remote but no antenna? The one at circuit city comes with an antenna but no remote.

Luckily my sis still had her antenna from her other card.

Thanks OP!

 

[Qwest]

Originally posted by: GTFan

Originally posted by: Qwest
i could look this up on a PVR forum...but does anyone know if this is possible?

Coax cable --- cable box --- component cable --- TV
and...
TV--- S Video --- PVR Card --- componet cable --- TV

1st yes, second no. Not sure what you're wanting to do with #2, but most TV's do not have S-Vid out. And PC's do not do component out, generally speaking.

What are you wanting to do?

In the second scenario, I meant, Cable box outputs S Video to PVR Card...PC outputs via component cable (mine has that connection) back to TV.