[mythtv-users] Need a Dual turner Capture card for myCable, WinTV-PVR 500 is discontinued so what do you recommend ?

Mitch Gore mitchell.gore at gmail.com
Mon Jul 28 02:01:46 UTC 2008


On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 10:23 PM, David Brieck Jr. <dbrieck at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 9:15 AM, Roberto Salvatierra
> <robertosalvatierra at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Well I live In Costa Rica, Our Standars are basically the same as in USA,
> > NTSC, analog transmision over the cable
> > ( well there's also digital, but there are no QAM channels, so everything
> is
> > encrypted ) as I said there's one channel with ASTC,
> >
> > I was looking yesterday at the support for linux for the "Hauppauge
> > HVR-1600" and it seems promising but I would like to know some hands on
> user
> > experiences.
> >
> > Interesting enough yesterday I searched for the PVR-500 on that same page
> > you wrote and it returned no results, and I did a lot of different
> searches,
> > ^^;
> >
> > On other stores where they had it "listed" they all showed discontinued,
> or
> > out of stock.
> >
> > Also there's a note on the mythtv wiki that it says that in holland it is
> > discontinued, so I wonder.
> >
>
> They are probably getting a lot of heat from the FCC for selling
> analog only tuners. I bet that's why all of their new cards can do
> both. I'm not sure about linux support for the hvr-2250, but that one
> looks like it's replacing the pvr-500.
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Hope we can get get working drivers for the newer cards before its totally
impossible to get the 150 and 500 PVR's.

Guess we can always go with the HD PVR with that gets merged to
fixes....hopefully soon!

Mitchell
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