Hauppauge Media Center Remote

[markfarey]

Is anyone using the Hauppauge Media Center Remote with GB-PVR rather than the standard Hauppauge version? Does it work OK "out of the box" or is some remapping needed? I'm trying to decide whether to buy a standard 1600-HVR capture card versus the MCE version. The MCE version has a radio tuner, but the MCE remote may not work so well with GB-PVR.

Regards to all,
Mark.

[nemulate]

Hi, from my experience the Hauppauge remote has always seemed to work better with GBPVR than the MCE one that they supply with some of the MCE edition cards. I still prefer the MCE remote though as it 'feels' and looks better in my opinion.

[markfarey]

Thanks for the reply. Do you know whether the two are pretty well identical from a buttons point-of-view? In what way does the Hauppauge remote work better?

Regards,
Mark.

[nemulate]

I could be wrong because I haven't tried it lately but I think some of the buttons on the MCE remote aren't mapped ie the 4 colour buttons but I'll double check when I get the chance to make sure it's still the same.

Cheers

[walt12]

Also, I believe the Hauppauge MCE remote only works natively under Vista MCE. Actually, more accurately the USB IR receiver unit.

To get it working under XP, requires some driver hacking.

[markfarey]

Thanks, I decided to play safe and ordered the Hauppauge Win-TV version. Don't think I will ever want to run Media Center on this PC.

Regards,
Mark,