Customer Reviews

Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-250MCE (Model 975)

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If you are looking for a reasonably priced Hauppauge PVR 250 for use with MythTV, this *isn't* it. This is the MCE version, a fact which Amazon cleverly left out of the product title (although it is present in the fine print), and it is 50-50 whether this will work with MythTV. Look for the Model 980 instead. I bought this one by mistake... learn from my misfortune.

I ordered this from Amazon and it came the next day, even though I checked standard shipping. That was kinda cool. :)

I havent found anything really wrong with this card other than the fact that there is about a 1-2 second lag time when watching video. This really is no big deal unless you planned on say plugging in your XBOX to it and try to play video games through your PC.

The recording quality is excellent, I recorded a couple of fights I had saved on my TIVO and burned them to DVD for my fight collection and when I played it back on the DVD player, there was absolutely no loss in the quality. It looked identical to what I had saved on TIVO.

I really cannot use the channel changer features as I use satellite, but it seems to tune into channel 3 ok. :)

Supposedly you can set it up to record stuff automatically etc., I just do not need it for that so I cannot really comment on it.

I would have given this 5 stars if there was no lag time.

Great product, I highly recommend it.

Needed a hardware mpeg encoder for LinuxMCE and works great. Slight delay on encoding as you would expect. Tuner is analogue but appears to work although I have no use for it.