[mythtv-users] Looking for the latest word on PCI-Express tuner boards

Brian Steele steele.brian at gmail.com
Mon Aug 25 16:58:14 UTC 2008


On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 9:08 AM, Andy Wettstein <ajw1980 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 11:59:36AM -0400, Bruce H McIntosh wrote:
>> Like a bunch of you, I've built my mythbox (combined frontend/backend)
>> on one of those spiffy little M2N mobos with onboard GeForce 6150 video.
>> Catch is, it has only two PCI slots, both of which are occupied with
>> NTSC cards.  Networking is on the mobo, but there's a 35' long CAT5
>> cable trailing out the family room, across the dining room and into the
>> office, which the wife has decreed must go.  I have a wireless adapter
>> but no PCI slot for it.  So I figured, why not get newfangled PCI
>> Express analog/digital tuner cards and be ready for the dreaded Feb 19
>> cutover?  So, my question - anyone have any hands-on with the latest
>> round of PCIe tuner/capture cards?
>
> hauppauge hvr 1250 is working fine for me.  Only the digital tuning is
> working, but analog is a framegrabber on this card anyway.  hvr 1800
> is supposed to work, too, and I believe it has a hardware analog encoder,
> but I don't have first hand experience with it.


I have the hvr 1800.  The digital tuner works great, but the analog
tuner is not currently functional.


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