How come no HD tuners from Hauppauge?

[mayamaniac]

I'm just in a hardware questioning mood today...

For a company that pretty much made the standard hardware MPEG2 TV tuner capture card, the PVR-250, for all PVR systems, how come they never develop a HD tuner capture card? What will happen in a few years when all contents are converted to HD, will Hauppauge just die? Or are they developing HD products now as we speak? CES 2005 just passed and all I read so far is a wireless MVP from Hauppauge. Any insiders about Hauppauge to comment on this subject?

[stanger89]

Originally Posted by mayamaniac

how come they never develop a HD tuner capture card?

Do a search (web) for WinTV-HD

[mayamaniac]

Seems like a really old product and read that it doesn't do true 1080 HD or something, and really expensive for whatever reason, over $330. Besides, its not listed in the SageTV Hardware requirements, so I don't think this is a PVR tuner. But they have one so-called HD card, thats still nothing compare to amount of SD PVR cards they have including USB ones. Still wonder why they don't do more HD products.

[paulbeers]

Mayamaniac -

How funny. I was just thinking that the other day, and then I saw this post. Now I realise that they obviously do make one, just it isn't supported by any software? How strange. As you pointed out, they are the defacto choice for all analog pvr, you would think they would have come up with a good hdtv card. Now granted I suppose they figure that the options for hdtv cards are limited to OTA at this point and so maybe they don't see much demand? I bet Avermedia and Dvico are happy right now!