Hauppauge MCE250 in New Zealand

[tieke]

I suspect it is a bit late for this, but as a mate was coming back from the US this week, I got him to pick up an MCE 250 on the way, as I thought the FM would be a bonus and I didn't really need the 350's added features.

I live in New Zealand, and had read that someone else had had no problem with a US-sourced board doing PAL, however I suspect I should have done a bit more research, as the picture and sound are garbled/multi-coloured, and the PAL option in the Hauppauge software is PAL-M, rather than the PAL-B we use here. It looks like I'll have to do a long-distance return, but I thought I would (belatedly) check here first for confirmation.

(And I'm using composite in from a Saturn cable box, so the tuning isn't the problem)

[sub]

I've never actually seen a MCE250 card, but I would of thought it should be able to PAL successfully via the SVideo/Composite input. The NTSC tuner would obviously not work.

Does the MCE card come with a copy of WinTV2000? Does this let you set a PAL B/G channel, and view the signal correctly?

[tieke]

That's what I thought as well, especially as people have reported using the card successfully in NZ - they must have had a PAL-B/G enabled card though, because despite various attempts, it definitely doesn't like our version of PAL.

It plays composite NTSC fine of course, but WINTV2000 only gives the options of NTSC-M and PAL-M no matter what input you choose.  I may have just bought a pretty expensive radio tuner.

[sub]

This *may* help http://www.shspvr.com/download/all_formats.zip

[tieke]

That did the trick! Thank you very much - I will now be able to stop smacking myself in the head for being such an arse.

[sub]

No problem. Glad to be of help.