Hauppauge Computer Works WinTV-PVR 500 MCE White box

(MPN: 1081)

Description: Watch TV on your PC screen using Windows? XP Media Center Edition, digitally record your TV shows, or pause live TV with instant replay, and listen to FM radio with the WinTV?-PVR-500 MCE-Kit Personal Video Recorder with NTSC TV Tuner from .... Read More

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Date Reviewed: Mar 10, 2006
cushen123 Member Since: Mar 2006 View Member's: Reviews	TV Out I want to build a pvr but i would like to find a video card that has the option of a tv out. Maybe my lack of experience with these cards or lack of understanding, but I haven't seen a card that offers that, just video in. Does anyone know how to create a pvr with this or other cards and then send to a TV and not play it on my PC.

Response #1 Posted on: Oct 20, 2007
devinteske Member Since: Oct 2007	You want the Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-350 (either standard or MCE edition). The PVR-350 has a TV-Out connector (coaxial) that allows you to display your PVR on your TV from your computer. However, the ONLY software that I know of that works with the PVR-350's TV-Out feature is Sage TV. So don't expect it to work on Windows MCE, Windows MCE 2005, Windows Vista MCE, MythTV, BeyondTV, etc. In my personal opinion (if you are using Sage), the PVR-350 is the way to go. Outputting the video through the TV-Out is far superior to outputting via your main video card. This is because with an MPEG-2 decoder (found in the PVR-350), your TV will display perfectly. You don't have to mess around with all the other things you need to tweak to get your main video card (that is, if it has video out) to look right (such as scaling, deinterlacing, width, height, shift, hold, gamma, brightness, contrast, etc.). With Sage, the PVR-350 outputs to your Standard-Def TV with perfect images. Hold off on the PVR-350 if you want digital/hi-def until Hauppauge makes a card with an ATSC/QAM hardware MPEG-2 decoder. Although, if you want digital ATSC/QAM output, you'd probably be best just getting a main video card with HDMI/DVI output and running to your hi-def TV. Report this as inappropriate.