[mythtv-users] First Stab at a Shopping List (HVR-1600?)

Jarod Wilson jarod at wilsonet.com
Fri Apr 13 21:22:08 UTC 2007


On Friday 13 April 2007 16:10:46 John Daleske wrote:
> I agree with Geoff that it seems like the HDHomerun makes a lot of
> sense.  However, rather than one of the older Hauppage cards, has anyone
> tried the new Hauppage HVR-1600?
> (http://www.hauppage.com/pages/products/data_hvr1600.html)
>
> It basically has the same analogue tuner as the older cards, but also a
> second, separate ATSC tuner.  In addition, it provides the ATSC stream
> as MPEG-2.

Erm, *all* ATSC tuners dump an MPEG-2 stream. That's what's coming down the 
pipe from the head end.

> Seems like it would be a good transitional card taking a single slot for
> two tuners, one (analogue) which will eventually die out in the US.
>
> Has anyone tried the HVR-1600 on MythTV?  (I'm using Ubuntu, so would
> like to know if it has been tried there, too.)
>
> I saw earlier in this list people complaining they had been sent the
> 1600 in place of a PVR-150.  I can't disagree that they should have
> gotten the same card type back as a return, but with this extra
> functionality, I'm curious why they wouldn't want it.

Because it doesn't work under Linux just yet. I'd actually like to get my 
hands on one to play with, but I've got enough to do already...

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com


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