Hauppauge WinTV-PVR 150 MCE $63.64 @ Amazon.com

[RossMAN]

Amazon has the very popular Hauppauge WinTV-PVR 150 Media Center Edition for a low $63.64 with free shipping for a limited time.

Add TV and FM radio to your Windows XP Media Center Edition PC with the Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-150MCE. The WinTV-PVR-150MCE has the best video quality of any Media Center TV tuner, plus adds FM radio. The WinTV-PVR-150MCE runs under Windows XP, too! You can also use the WinTV-PVR-150MCE to watch TV in a window and record your TV shows into an MPEG format with WinTV2000, Hauppauge's TV application. Use up to two WinTV-PVR-150MCE's in a Media Center 2005 system:. Watch one TV channel while recording another by installing two WinTV-PVR-150's in a Media Center system. If you already have a Media Center system with a Hauppauge WinTV-PVR, you can add a second WinTV-PVR.

Make a cheap HTPC if you have PC parts lying around, just add PVR software SageTV or BeyondTV.

 

[yougotdeals]

Woul be nice if I could get to amazon right now.

It's up now.... nice find.

Link

 

[seanws]

good find. too bad its the mce model tho. no remote

 

[Chadder007]

Both programs allow you to stream your TV over the internet to at least 1 PC right? Or didn't one or both of them start charging licensing fees for it....or is at least one other remote view included?

 

[RDMustang1]

Why does it say limit 2 per system?

 

[nomadh]

What would be the best option for a remote then? I'm planning on sage or beyondtv but I was expecting to use the remote from the tuner card. Any good options with the mce ver?

 

[MrPeacock]

Originally posted by: nomadh
What would be the best option for a remote then? I'm planning on sage or beyondtv but I was expecting to use the remote from the tuner card. Any good options with the mce ver?

Since you're using windows, the streamzap remote is pretty good. Streamzap updates their drivers fairly often, so they support a lot of applications.

Back to the original topic, I have the 150 MCE. It's not supported by all PVR apps, but the major apps support it (like SageTV and BeyondTV.) It also has the advantage of an FM tuner, although there's not much that supports FM nowadays.

 

[sparhawk6]

I have this card. Works great with Sage TV. I'm looking for a remote also.

 

[jamesey]

Will this card work fine on Windows 2000 or Windows XP Home? I have a $40 GC at Amazon and this would be the perfect time to use it

 

[musicman64]

Card works fine under XP, had no issues with drivers. Worked fine with Snapstream.

However my card seems to have been assembled poorly/screwed up.

The component inputs on the back are all out of line, the red audio in particular. The card will not line up properly in my case at all (old coolermaster vx1). I took the mobo tray out and looked over things, seems the mounting bracket of the card is just screwy...

Most likely going to send it back for a replacement. I bought mine at buy.com btw, they have it for 64.99 (I got free shipping) sold out now however.

 

[yukichigai]

A link would be nice.

And yes, does it work on Win 2k? I'm avoiding the bloatware that is XP as much as possible.

 

[mscdex0]

It shows $69.72 now.

 

[RossMAN]

Originally posted by: mscdex0
It shows $69.72 now.

Amazon prices fluctuate, damn I should have bought it sooner

 

[corinthos]

just a couple of days ago it was $63.xx and hours later jumped up a few bucks...

 

[FreakyD]

It works just fine in Windows 2000 as well.

Even though there is no remote in the MCE version, it is cheaper than the one including a remote.

 

[mscdex0]

Back to $66.99 now.

 

[pilgrim2u]

I have the PVR 250.....its great....what is the difference in this card?
mine was 100 bucks

thanks

 

[PCPETE]

hey what about those new Theaterx 550 chips from ATI.... think those have HD support dont know too much about these got to find some details. These Haupaugges are hot tho!

 

[etrin]

I also want to know what the difference is between the 150 and the 250. Some have posted that the 250 does better on card compression....bla bla bla...others said no the 150 is the cheap replacement for the 250 does everything that it did.

comments from those who know ???

thanks big time
sparks

won't get into whats better with this one sage or beyondtv hehe

 

[Heinrich]

I need a USB version to use both with a SFF with only one PCI slot (that holds an HDTV Wonder) and to travel with my laptop

 

[saechaka]

Originally posted by: etrin
I also want to know what the difference is between the 150 and the 250. Some have posted that the 250 does better on card compression....bla bla bla...others said no the 150 is the cheap replacement for the 250 does everything that it did.

comments from those who know ???

thanks big time
sparks

won't get into whats better with this one sage or beyondtv hehe

can someone aswer this as i'm trying to decide between pvr 150 andpvr 250 thanks

 

[george2350]

Originally posted by: Heinrich
I need a USB version to use both with a SFF with only one PCI slot (that holds an HDTV Wonder) and to travel with my laptop

Pinnacle PCTV Deluxe USB Version is what you need !!!!

 

[kY]

I heard that the PVR 250 uses separate chips for both encoding and decoding but the 150 has a combination chip which is the new direction that Hauppauge is taking w/ their products. Not sure if this is "better" per se, I'm a PVR noob myself

 

[HomerSapien]

The 150 is basically the 250 but newer. The only difference that i have really heard of is that if you use multiple 150's the sound is not normalized the same for each card. Therefore the sound can be at different volumes. This isnt true with all the cards, just some of the problems people have reported at the sage tv forums in multiple tuner setups.

Btw, if you do this deal, get sage tv or look at the sage tv bundles with tuners. It is by far the best player out. Dont even bother with the one hauppage has. If you do, check out their forums and go to customizations. Some really cool stuff in there that people have created. Im using the Cayars17 stv. Almost allows all the customization that i want.Sage Tv forums

 

[Heinrich]

Originally posted by: george2350

Originally posted by: Heinrich
I need a USB version to use both with a SFF with only one PCI slot (that holds an HDTV Wonder) and to travel with my laptop

Pinnacle PCTV Deluxe USB Version is what you need !!!!

This is an exceptionally STUPID question but...

I saw someone at the airport watching TV on a laptop. I thought it was live TV. I did not notice some sort of antenna contraption. Was he watching recorded TV? Or do some of these "laptop tv tuners" able to acpture the signal over the air without a cable or antenna? Or do they all need a source of some sort?