is the Hauppauge 250 or 350 that much better than 150?

[Relayer]

Is there a significant difference in the quailty of recordings to be worth the price difference? I think the mpeg2 encoder chip is the only difference.


Also to follow up on my question. will the WinTV-PVR-150 MCE Kit work in xp pro?

 

[Relayer]

the 150 is $50 at crapusa

 

[Traire]

The 150 is newer than the 250.

 

[Lord Banshee]

the forums over at www.htpcnews.com may help better.

 

[Matthias99]

The 150 is a newer version of the 250, with a new version of the encoder chip that costs less to make. Hence the lower price. Quality-wise, they seem to perform almost identically. The 350 is a 250 with a built-in hardware decoder, which allows you to play back the recorded stream with almost no CPU usage. However, the hardware decoding doesn't work with things like MCE or most DVR software.

The 150MCE is just a 150 that doesn't include any recording software (it is designed for use with Windows XP MCE, which includes its own software). It works just fine in regular WinXP, but you'll need to provide recording software.

 

[theShark]

wintv will work I've used it myself, you just need to download it. http://www.shspvr.com/ has info how

 

[Relayer]

Originally posted by: Matthias99
The 150 is a newer version of the 250, with a new version of the encoder chip that costs less to make. Hence the lower price. Quality-wise, they seem to perform almost identically. The 350 is a 250 with a built-in hardware decoder, which allows you to play back the recorded stream with almost no CPU usage. However, the hardware decoding doesn't work with things like MCE or most DVR software.

The 150MCE is just a 150 that doesn't include any recording software (it is designed for use with Windows XP MCE, which includes its own software). It works just fine in regular WinXP, but you'll need to provide recording software.

Since I have another pvr150, will the software work for the pvr150mce? My guess is yes. Since they are $50 at crapusa now, I think I'll get one. Otherwise, I can use some other recording software like.


<edit>I bought a pvr150mce and it works fine with xp pro. It records, schedules recordings, everything.</edit>