Hauppauge for Freeview in NZ

[scottiamit]

I am planning on moving to Freeview hopefully using Digital terrestrial DVB-T via uhf as this should be the easiest install for me and allows for freeview HD. So now I am trying to select a digital tuner for this purpose and I like the looks of the Hauppauge WinTV-HVR4000 HD Quad-mode TV receiver as well as the Hauppage WinTV HVR 3000 Triple mode. I like these as I can use satellite if the signal isn't up to scratch but the also have analogue tuners built in. For the HVR 4000 the features say 'With Digital Video Recorder record analogue, DVB-T or DVB-S TV in high quality MPEG-2' does this mean it has a hardware mpeg2 encoder for analogue and the HVR does not? What are the main differences between these two TV cards? Any thing I should be aware of for user with Freeview HD?

Thanks.

[sub]

The HVR3000/4000 are good devices for DVB-T and DVB-S, but they dont have a hardware MPEG2 encoder so not much use for analog in GB-PVR. Other than that they pretty nice devices.

[scottiamit]

Good to know. Thanks for that.

[psycik]

The other main difference between the cards is the 4000 has a DVB-S2 tuner as well. But that's not currently used over here.

They seem to market the 4000 as HD - but that relates to the dvb-s2 rather than the dvb-t. Both cards have the same dvb-t tuner and can both record the nz dvb-t stream

Playing it however is dependant on other things in your system.

[scottiamit]

Oh that makes things a bit clearer, so no real point in paying the extra cash for the 4000 then is there, guess I'll go with the 3000 and retain my analog cards for now. Cheers

[Lindsay]

If you find you don't need DVB-S, the HVR2200 is a great card. It has hardware mpeg-2 encoding as well.

It is PCI-E BTW.