Having decided to go for an MVP as an alternative display device to the flaky PVR350, I did a ton of research on Saturday into the lowest cost available from a repuatable retailer, and thought it may save someone a bit of legwork to post my results here (although of course these things are constantly changing).

After trawling all the main comparison shopping services, as well as all the online outlets listed on Hauppauge's web site. the cheapest by a fair margin were:

Maplin Electronics (GBP49.99 inc VAT - with free shipping to UK Mainland), and:
Savastore.com (GBP46.99 inc VAT, GBP52.22 inc UK shipping)

Maplin charged only GBP7 to ship to Ireland, Savastore wanted about GBP15, putting Maplin a few quid further ahead for me. I could have even saved the 7 quid by ordering through one of Maplin's Dublin stores (it's not a stock-item in the shops here), but for me it's not worth the time & hassle factor of going in to pick it up.

I've yet to see how promtly they deliver, but past experience of their mail order service has been good (despite what people may say about the spotty oiks that man (boy?) their stores.), and the online order status changed to "printed for picking" whilst I was writing this (I ordered after hours Saturday), which is a good sign. OTOH, stock levels now read "Within 28 days", so either I got the last one, or I'm going to be twiddling my thumbs for the next month!

It would be interesting to see how this compares elsewhere - I only looked at UK retailers to cut delivery time, but I understand that the US model is essentially compatible, having a universal PSU (adapter required) and composite & s-video out as opposed to scart (which may actually suit some users better rather than having to source scart to s-video cables for a non-scart TV).

Sub et. al,
This one should be fairly easy: how do I go about making a high-resolution skin? Is it as simple as changing the resolution in the skins' xml files to something higher? Thanks! As always, great work, sub ^_^

Hi All,
Had anyone any success for this hardware with GBPVR ?
Could you please share your configuration parameters for this card if you manage to make it work with GBPVR ?
Thank you beforehand,
Rgds,
Alex

I'd love to have a vertical line in the TV Guide showing the exact current position of what's going on. Nothing fancy, just a simple line that would progress every 10 to 20 seconds or every minute. As it is now, it's quite hard to know exactly where in the guide one is right now.
Hope I'm clear enough in my description...

I'm trying to setup a HTPC with GBPVR, originally I tried two ATI TV wonders but that didn't work. Looks like the recomened setup from just about everyone is a Pair of Hauppauge PVR-150/150MCE, so thats what I'm switching to. I just got the PVR-150 and the 150MCE is on the way. After I installed the 150 I got gbpvr to run nicely, but I'm not entirely happy with the quality of the video, it seems less sharp than either the old ATI card I replaced or regular broadcast, and there is noticeable Blurring when there is alot of action on TV. Any idea what might cause this? Alot of people rave about this card and don't mention any such problem, so I wonder what It could be.

Can the numbered buttons(0-9) of the silver MVP remote be set to change channels directly? (ie press 505 to go to HBO)

thanks

For those of us with hardware decoding, like the Hauppauge 350, it would be nice to be able to indepenently stretch the video signal from the OSD, and menus. I can go into the individual skin files and move some of the items around so they fit, but there are a couple of things that still get cut off by having my livetv signal properly centered like a true tv signal is.

The SageTV stretching is pretty nice, just hitting in-out arrows to stretch it accordingly, but even an option in the config.xml file would be great.

I know this isn't what you wanna hear, Sub, but after installing the latest version and running config and then restarting my computer, the web interface no longer works...at least not locally. I can give you my IP and port number to try from where you are if you want but I wanted to know if you were aware of this problem, if it's just me, etc. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. Otherwise, a kick-ass release!!!!!! Keep going, man

error: Object reference not set to an instance of an object

This is the error I'm getting. I had a previous build and it did the same thing. I have a pvr250 in a cuv4x MB. I'm not sure whats going on. I can not find this error anywhere. This card and software worked in my AMD pc great as a test but not on my intel. So far on this system wintv, showshifter and cttv all work but I think I was most impressed with gb-pvr. Could anyone give me an idea of what might be wrong.
I'm using GBPVR09010.msi and I tried 0908 before that.
Thank you, Damon

Hi

I am using bleb an have lost my tv guide . i have updated to 9010 but it wasnt there even on the last 2 versions i cant suss it out. tried firewall off on update epg. i get channel icons in tv guide but no listings. i notice in bleb channels folder all the channels are 33 is this right? exhausted all my resources help...

by the way top software. very impressive

XP 1600
256 Mb
150 MCE
Nvidia MX400