August 9, 2007
Schedules Direct Announces Initial Pricing

The answer to everyone's top question is.... $15 / 3 months non-recurring.

That's too much money!
Sorry... until we have some idea as to the subscriber count we need to make sure we can pay the bills. We expect pricing to drop by the end of the initial term. Our goal is $20/year.

Why don't you offer recurring pricing?
We expect to lower the price and offer other terms after the first quarter, so you'd need to switch to a different subscription plan at that time anyway.

Why don't you offer lifetime subscriptions?
Kinda early to say we won't, but probably not. We're looking for a long-term solution and it's not fiscally prudent when we don't know what our long-term costs will be. Remember we're just offering a data service, not hardware that has a 2-6 year lifetime. Our goal is to provide quality data at the lowest possible price. If you want to donate $10k or so, we'll consider a lifetime subscription.

I refuse to get a Paypal account!
The initially rollout will not require a Paypal account (but will offer Paypal CC processing). We're looking into alternatives. Paypal was quick, and we had developers experienced using it. ( Quick is important... we don't have much time).

Hi group,

I would like to be able to edit the channel number text (size, color) which is entered directly from the Hauppauge remote. This is the text which is displayed in the upper left corner when GB is in the Live TV mode. I'm using the standard Blue skin in GB-PVR 1.08 classic. I have tried searching the various xml files, but, I haven't been able to locate this specific text.

Can someone tell me where the text attributes are located?

Is there a way to leave the current channel number on the screen instead of it timing out?

thanks,

em

There is an article on "Download Squad" about Schedules direct. The article contains a link that is supposed to point to GBPVR but takes you here.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938979/en-us

Hey, I was just looking through the normal pages on the tinterweb and noticed Microsoft have put out a patch to help with the network performance on Vista systems.

I'm hoping this will go some way to help people with client server problems when using Vista.


Hope this helps people, the remote live TV ability of GBPVR is why I'm spending so much time trying to get freeview at home!

I just bought a USB tuner stick, an Asus My Cinema U3000 Mini. Assuming that all bundled software is rubbish, I decided that GB-PVR must be better, so I got it and I've been trying to set it up.

What I've done so far:

Installed the drivers for the tuner that came on the CD with it.
Followed this advice on how to select the tuner as a recording source.

However now I'm stuck on selecting an EPG source.

The wiki said that "An XMLTV grabber guide (mainly for the Netherlands) can be found on the Link page." However there was no link there. I looked on the TVxb page, but that in turn said I should be using this XMLTV GUI. I've downloaded that, in the grabbers settings I have checked the UK Radio Times grabber, however when I click Grab Listings nothing seems to happen. This is what it says:

looks so much nicer - thanks for all hard work.

things i like :

interface is so much easier on the eye and using pc resolution and full 16:9
mp3's now appear with numbers (picks up playlist, maybe?)
upgrade was very painless

things i didn't like :

my HIP.exe config was transported across but didn't work - i reverted back to normal MCE remote driver etc.
System menu gone - used it to shutdown PC and Update EPG
Start GBPVR from the system tray launches old .exe - nice to include new one

also, i recently scanned posts for info on playing HD (mkv) files in GBPVR and people report is not good.

i find that using CoreAVC decoder, works a treat (you have to buy it, but look hard enough and is available on web).

anyone know if the shutdown plugin works with new version?

I installed rev 1.08. now the FF and REV button on the MVP remote do not work. Play, stop, pause, and the skip's work ok.

Any help would be appreciated

Thanks

Scott

I saw that sub said that he was adding the epg update utility to the next version of gbpvr for schedule direct. I was wondering if there was going to be a way to update EPG data in older versions of gbpvr as well or if I was going to have to upgrade. If anybody knows please post.

Hello,
Could someone help? I've upgraded GBPVR to 1.0.8 and it doesn't work - it says 'failed to locate configured BDA device'. The driver for my Freecom DVB-T stick is OK (downloaded from their website). I've tried to go back to
the previous version of GBPVR and still it doesn't work.
When I'm in setup and select 'choose only devices on this machine' it says it can't recognise any - and previously it could recognise Freecom DVB-T. Any suggestions? Thanks for help!
Filip

Hi,

I am new to GB-PVR but have read a few messages talking about tries to work with MG-35, this would really be great as this media player works fine, but miss live tv from a remote pc with tv tuner, and gb-pvr would of course do it and much more...

Is it true that work is done on this? Will it be a custom firmware for the MG-35 to work with GB-PVR?

Mediagate MG-35 (and Freecom MediaPlayer-35, the clone) is a famous product and GB-PVR would just be a wonderful new huge set of features for it!

Thanks for your help,

Philippe.