HDHomeRun® - PRIME⢠Quick status update...
We are at CableLabs® for the final review, with release to production in 2 weeks. Pre-order and release dates will be announced shortly following release to production.
On the availability side we are working with major retail partners to stock the HDHomeRun PRIME and accept pre-orders. The price has been confirmed at $249. Black Friday - We have been working with the good people at Newegg for a great Black Friday deal on the original HDHomeRun-Dual ATSC/clear QAM tuner. The sale runs Friday November 26 continuing through to Cyber Monday. CES - everything is in place for a great CES 2011 in Las VegasJanuary 6-9 - We will be on the floor in the South Hall 3, upper level, booth 31948.
Release to production is the key milestone for us and we have been working hard to make it happen. We will keep you posted.
I'm new to making my own PVR but have had it with DirecTV's fees. I have a Dell desktop PC that I plan to convert into a dedicated media PC and I'm looking for recommendations as to what Tuner card to get.
The PC has 3 PCI slots, but no PCI express. It runs windows XP.
I live in San Francisco so there are lots of over the air digital channels. I don't care if it records analog of cable or analog broadcast, I won't be needing that.
I'd like to get a card that can record two shows at once or let me watch one while I record another.
I'd like to get a card that can record HD if a show is broadcast in HD.
The TV I'll playing back into is a Sony 720P one with HDMI input as well as VGA and component & composite.
There's a cable-modem speed internet connection at the TV, and we have a netflix subscription and Hulu subscription, so if the card can take advantage of this that would be great, and hopefully the gbpvr software can help capture and manage as much of this content as possible.
Aside from getting a video card, a wireless keyboard, and a really big fast hard drive is there any other hardware I need? I guess I need something that can receive remote signals. CUrrently I have a logitech harmony programmable remote, so I would rather set up something that I can program my current remote to operate, rather than have to have a second remote just for the computer.
As you can tell, I'm asking newbie questions, and would appreciate any suggestions you may have about the best card for my situation.
What remote key is used to arrange the sort order of recordings? Mine were sorted a-z at first, but now they are z-a. I suspect I hit some remote key to cause the change, but I don't know which one.
I had intended moving to Npvr and getting an egreat m34a as a Christmas present to myself, but as I mainly use gbpvr for music streaming, I cant quite work out whether this is a good idea or not.
Will Musiclibray3 (or a successor) be ported to Npvr ? Martin seemed to be unsure whether he was going to bother or not.
Without musiclibrary3 I cannot move to npvr so is there any real point in upgrading from my Mpv
I have an HD 1080p TV and a digital amp, would I see any significant improvement in visibility when most of the time its the screen saver showing photographs which is on the tv screen, upgrading from a scart connected MVP to an hdmi egreat box.
from my research an apple TV box looks like the best bet, just load the music into itunes, but I'm not clear how well it copes with photographs if I'm not using a mac system.
all the other boxes AC Ryan, Sumvision, Xstreamer, wdtv etc etc seem to geared to playing video rather than playing music, and the specialised music players such as squeezebox, teac, sonas etc are ludicrous prices.
So the big question is what is the state of music playing on npvr can I hit a couple of buttons and have continuous random music as I can with musiclibrary3 ?
Or should I just stick with XP gbpvr 1.4.7 and my Mvp and fade into the background
After a disk crash I reinstalled gbpvr 1.4.7, but this time on win7, as opposed to xp earlier. Now I fail to find the settings needed in order to have the smooth problem free viewing experience from the past.
One thing I notice in graphstudio is that the dvb-t (terratech 1200) is represented twice, which i do not recall from the previous installation. I have no clue if this has something to do with it, or not... see attached jpg.
gbpvr logs attached as well.
Any help appreciated, in order to reset the WAF to it's earlier highwater mark...
assume we have three channels: TV1, TV2, TV3
In the pictures, TV1 = ZDF, TV2 = 3sat, TV3 = arte. Error when I want to record the "Stilles Licht" program when other programs like "heute-journal" or "ZIB2" is/are recording.
1 - The first situation, we record at the same time TV1 and TV2, that's ok, no problem.
2 - The second one, we record at the same time TV1 and TV3, we have a message: "No tuner available for this recording" (also when we record TV2 and TV3, this message is also displayed)
3 - thirdly, we record only channel TV1, then choose TV3 to watch, we have this message: "Unable to find available capture device"
4 - Now, we also record only channel TV1, then go to Live-TV, open the channel TV2, that works. However, if we open the channel TV3, we have another message: "Requested channel not currently available"
Summary:
TV1 + TV2 = ok
TV1 + TV3 or TV2 + TV3 = problem.
what happens?
I have noticed that sometimes my NMT servers are not getting freed up. I have two NMT devices. One is a A100 and the other is an EGreat. I have the NPVR setup to have 2 NMT servers. After clean restart of the NPVR recording service, there seems to be 2 servers available. But after some use, it changes where I can only have one of my devices connected. I know this because one will get into a loop where it looks like it is trying to connect. Only after I stop the other device will it get connected.
I usually stop the A100 by putting it into standby. With EGreat, the power off button turns the device completely off, so that is how the device gets turned off. I think the problem is related to the use of the EGreat, but I am not sure.
Is this a known problem? I did not have this issue with GBPVR.
I have GB-PVR running on XP using an Hauppauge PVR-150 capture card, and I am thinking of upgrading to NPVR. What do I need to do for the upgrade to work? Does NPVR run on XP? Are there special steps I need to follow for the upgrade to work?
I'll probably go to the latest version of NPVR - if I can - I'm just hesitant because I don't want to lose the recordings (or the wife will have a lot to say about it!).