What is the best for the money(cheap) USB tuner, supported in GBPVR.

[A_Brass]

I'm thinking about adding a USB tuner to my PVR setup. For two reasons, one to capture additional shows, but also to be able to take the USB tuner with me when I travel.

Questions:
1. What is the best usb tuner for the money?

2. Can you run a GBPVR install with a PVR 150(retail) and a USB tuner.

3. What happens if you remove a USB tuner from a working GBPVR install? Does it crash? Or cause recording problems? (I can see the obvious situation of two recordings in the same timeslot will not happen.)

4. Do USB 2.0 tuners work (well) with USB 1.1?

5. What else do I need to consider?

6. Am I just nuts? Why not buy a PVR 150MCE. (cheap)
Thanks for any input offered.

Unrelated. Have people had good luck with NAS as a recording option? Or is it better to record to the HD and move the files to network storage later?
I'm guessing it might be difficult to record and watch off the same NAS drive. Throughput issues perhaps?

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1. What is the best usb tuner for the money?

There isnt really many that are compatible. Since you're talking analog devices, the Hauppauge PVR USB2 is the only one that springs to mind

2. Can you run a GBPVR install with a PVR 150(retail) and a USB tuner.

yes

3. What happens if you remove a USB tuner from a working GBPVR install? Does it crash? Or cause recording problems? (I can see the obvious situation of two recordings in the same timeslot will not happen.)

If its unplugged at the time a recording was scheduled to occur on that device, then that recording would fail.

4. Do USB 2.0 tuners work (well) with USB 1.1?

no

6. Am I just nuts? Why not buy a PVR 150MCE. (cheap)
Thanks for any input offered

I prefer to hide device away inside my case, but each to their own...

[A_Brass]

As always, thanks sub. I appriciate your input.
Oh, by the way. I have the MVP and I'll have in the mail tomorrow.


Anyone have a used WinTV USB PVR 2 they would like to sell? I don't need the remote, just the tuner. PM me. Thanks

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Oh, by the way. I have the MVP and I'll have in the mail tomorrow

excellent - ta.

[herbs]

As always, thanks sub. I appriciate your input.
Oh, by the way. I have the MVP and I'll have in the mail tomorrow.


Anyone have a used WinTV USB PVR 2 they would like to sell? I don't need the remote, just the tuner. PM me. Thanks

What country are you in?

[A_Brass]

What country are you in?

Yeah that might make a difference(NTSC/PAL). I'm in the US.