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Author:  wfdudley [ Tue Feb 20, 2007 9:35 am ]
Post subject:  WinTV PVR-150 -- Hauppauge is shipping WinTV HVR 1600! BAD!

I just ordered a WinTV PVR-150 from provantage.com, a generally good
vendor. Opened the box, which says PVR-150 all over it, and inside
is an HVR-1600, with a note from Hauppauge saying as how they ran
out of PVR 150's. Pity, MythTV (R5D1 and also R5E50) know nothing
about it. Totally unrecognized as a video card.

The good news is that even though Provantage won't take back goods
when the shrink wrap is open, Hauppauge says they are happy to swap
me even for a real PVR 150.

Just call them and explain your plight, should you get one of these dogs.
(probably will be a nice card someday, has ATSC input as well as NTSC.)

For the record, before I pack it up and get rid of it, here's how it's marked
and what the chips are:

WinTV-HVR-1600 ATSC/NTSC 74021 LF Rev C1B2 Assembled in Malaysia
on the sticker on the tuner.
chips: Conexant CX24227-11Z N05G7AF 0642 CH
Conexant MPEGII A/V Encoder System CX23418-22Z Z 0546Y1F6 0547 Taiwan
ESMT M13S128324A AZR1P60XE19 5B 631 (and the leads are hidden)

Bill

Author:  spynotebook [ Tue Feb 20, 2007 3:51 pm ]
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That happened to me at Fry's in Atlanta. I was not happy because it was an hours drive to return it.

Author:  areD [ Sat Mar 17, 2007 10:44 pm ]
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Just got one here at Circuit City in Fairfax Va.

Author:  vertical98 [ Tue Mar 20, 2007 4:55 pm ]
Post subject:  Got one from NewEgg

RMA'd - Hauppauge replaced no problem. It just took 2 weeks.

Author:  dwaine [ Sun Mar 09, 2008 10:30 am ]
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If you grab v4l/dvb repository from linuxtv.org, it does have a working driver for the hvr-1600. They need some people testing out the driver with the hardware.

Apparently the driver is working well.

Dwaine

Author:  digitalhippie78 [ Wed Mar 19, 2008 2:32 pm ]
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dwaine wrote:
If you grab v4l/dvb repository from linuxtv.org, it does have a working driver for the hvr-1600. They need some people testing out the driver with the hardware.

Apparently the driver is working well.

Dwaine



How about the 1800? Seems to be a dual-tuner version... would love to go that route if possible.

Author:  Pain [ Wed Mar 19, 2008 3:49 pm ]
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The 150 is analog and going to to be useless in less then a year. I would rather take the 1600 and find some software that I could get by with until someone comes up with a good Linux driver. I would certainly try like hell to get those beta drivers working, but if you have to temporarily go with a windows solution then so be it.

Author:  mihanson [ Wed Mar 19, 2008 4:11 pm ]
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Pain wrote:
The 150 is analog and going to to be useless in less then a year.


Not if you get a D > A converter. It could also be useful for it's S-Video input from a cable/satellite box.

Author:  Pain [ Thu Mar 20, 2008 10:39 pm ]
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I got a free converter from Comcast. Does no good because you can not use MythTV to control what channel it outputs to the computer. I guess if you only watch one channel then it is perfect :P

Author:  ceenvee703 [ Fri Mar 21, 2008 6:57 am ]
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Pain wrote:
Does no good because you can not use MythTV to control what channel it outputs to the computer.


It doesn't have a remote control?

If it has a remote, it can be controlled via IR blasting. Not ideal but it does work.

Author:  Pain [ Sat Mar 22, 2008 1:37 am ]
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Yes there is a remote on the converter. Guess I will have to look into IR blasting when it gets closer to analog doomsday if I want to keep my PVR-150 going. Hoping the HVR-1600 I have sitting in the corner will be supported by then though.

Author:  jorin [ Thu May 22, 2008 10:53 am ]
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There has been some good movement in device drivers for the HD portion of the card. Supposedly the SD tuner has been up and running for a while.

http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=18292

My linux skills aren't quite to this level yet but if someone were to help me I'm sure I could learn. I've got a test box ready for my HVR-1600 once i feel confident in getting it going.

Hauppauge's site says they plan to have kernel support by 2.6.26. So this is good news.

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