Is the HVR-1600 supported at all?

[scirocco]

I see several conversations about this card all over this forum, and I know that apparently the QAM is not supported in GBPVR (yet... is it planned to support?). I do not see the card on the wiki's list of capture cards. My understanding is that the cable tuner side is essentially a PVR 150, which is apparently one of the preferred cards for GBPVR. I would like to give myself the option of seeing those QAM channels but not if I can't make use of the regular channels too. I am going on the assumption that I won't like the Hauppage provided media software since it seems to get slammed in a lot of the reviews I have seen.

Should I just get the PVR-150, or will I have the same functionality out of the box with the HVR-1600 & GBPVR, with the possible added benefit of future QAM support?

[sub]

Yes it works. Lots of people are using this card with GB-PVR. Analog cable or OTA digital work today, but you'd have to wait for the next release for QAM.

If I was in the US looking to buy a card today, I'd go with an HVR1600.

[DaRacerz]

I recently bought this card and can confirm the Analog portion does work with GB-PVR. And anxiously awaiting the next release for the QAM support.

[Anthony]

I have two HVR-1600 cards in my system and GB-PVR 99.12 works great with the analog side of the cards. I don't have an antenna for the ATSC side, so I can't comment on that part.

I'm EAGERLY awaiting the next GBPVR update that is supposed to add QAM support.

As for WinTV, I can't get it to do much of anything on my system. Sometimes it'll tune the digital stations, most of the time it just gives a blank screen (on the same stations I tuned earlier). The scheduler seems to record the same analog channel regardless of what digital channel I tell it to record? WinTV is mostly worthless.

By the way, I've tried SageTV and BeyondTV and neither of them support the QAM side of the HVR-1600 cards either. But, QAM support was just added by Hauppauge, so I suspect it'll take a bit for the support to arrive. In the meantime, the HVR-1600's work great as analog cards.

Anthony

[scirocco]

Nothing like hearing it from GB Headquarters... thanks for all the feedback. I'll put it in my shopping cart today...

[Jeff]

If my cable provide offers HDTV channels, will this card be able to tune them? Is that what QAM support is needed for? Or does it only support HDTV with a digital antenna?

EDIT: Never mind; I read the Hauppauge web site and they explained that QAM is what I need for this. I also found that they are on sale right now (after 2 rebates) for $69.99 at Circuit City- which seems like a good deal.

[sub]

Remember, only some models of HVR1600 do QAM, so you might want to research that before buying.

[scirocco]

I saw that only certain models of the hvr-1600 have QAM, I am reading the shopping site write up carefully. Thanks for the reminder. I was looking at the Hauppauge site last night tho trying to figure out what the difference between the hvr-1800 and the hvr-1600 actually was. I couldn't figure it out.

[sub]

I'm fairly sure the only difference is that the hvr-1800 is for PCI-express instead of PCI. I havnt heard too much about it yet though, so cant comment on QAM etc.