HD-PVR 2

[tvmaster2]

on the other hand....is this Hauppauge getting ready to discontinue the HD-PVR? Without those, that leaves just Colossus. Do you think they are killing the HD-PVR?

[Skirge01]

Originally Posted by tvmaster2

on the other hand....is this Hauppauge getting ready to discontinue the HD-PVR? Without those, that leaves just Colossus. Do you think they are killing the HD-PVR?

Buzzkill! Though, that is quite an interesting (and somewhat scary) thought.

[emveepee]

They have had both the original HDPVR and the Gaming edition so I doubt it. A major difference I think is that you want the original if you want a blaster. I use firewire so it won't matter as much unless the cableco's take that away.

Martin

[tvmaster2]

Originally Posted by emveepee

They have had both the original HDPVR and the Gaming edition so I doubt it. A major difference I think is that you want the original if you want a blaster. I use firewire so it won't matter as much unless the cableco's take that away.

Martin

I need spdif, so the new one seems useless. otherwise, how do you decode 5.1 audio after the cable co's flag the HDMI outputs of their boxes? Isn't component/SPDIF the only way....

[KeithAbbott]

Originally Posted by tvmaster2

I need spdif, so the new one seems useless. otherwise, how do you decode 5.1 audio after the cable co's flag the HDMI outputs of their boxes? Isn't component/SPDIF the only way....

Get yourself one of these: http://www.monoprice.com/products/pr...seq=1&format=2

[emveepee]

Originally Posted by tvmaster2

I need spdif, so the new one seems useless. otherwise, how do you decode 5.1 audio after the cable co's flag the HDMI outputs of their boxes? Isn't component/SPDIF the only way....

As long as the analog hole exists, component/spdif is the best way, maybe the ebay route is certainly the most versatile.

Martin

[tvmaster2]

can someone clear something up for me....who controls the 'analog hole' - the FCC, or the cable companies?

[SHS]

Good News I have it working one small heck and she up and runing

[sacrament055]

Originally Posted by SHS

Good News I have it working one small heck and she up and runing

Awesome, what did you have to do to make it work?

Any sync issues or lockups like the colossus?

[SHS]

Originally Posted by sacrament055

Awesome, what did you have to do to make it work?

That a Top Secret for now how ever soon as I get done testing this under SageTV I pass the info along.

Originally Posted by sacrament055

Any sync issues or lockups like the colossus?

Don't know after all I only had it a few hours and I bearly had time just get it up and running for tonigth recording.
Don't worry I be push it very hard with a lot 30 min recordings+channel changing all thurday and firday with no reboots.

[phelme]

Originally Posted by tvmaster2

I need spdif, so the new one seems useless. otherwise, how do you decode 5.1 audio after the cable co's flag the HDMI outputs of their boxes? Isn't component/SPDIF the only way....

Originally Posted by KeithAbbott

Get yourself one of these: http://www.monoprice.com/products/pr...seq=1&format=2

I run something like this with my Sony NSZ-GS7 Google TV box for splitting HDMI into S/PDIF and VGA (for an older projetor). Works great.

[SHS]

Just an up date so far no problem after 16 hour of back to back 30 min recoding+channel changing, As you know the the original HD-PVR would have done lock and crash burn with out a fan mod.
Oddly enough this new HD-PVR 2 dose run a bit warm main becuases of the way they design it.

[Beefcake550]

Why oh why couldn't they have released this before my original HDPVRs died and I replaced them with Colossus cards???? I gave up on Sage because I couldn't get the Colossus cards working properly in Sage. AAAACCCCKKKK!!!! I've been using WMC for the past 2 weeks without any problem but would have love to stick with Sage. I sold my extenders and everything!

[KeithAbbott]

Newegg has a special going on the Colossus, $120 after MIR. Maybe Hauppauge is coming out with a Colossus 2, with the new Magnum DXTPro Encoder chipset, and Newegg is trying to reduce inventory of the original Colossus???

p.s. They could call it "Even More Colossus"...

[redondo_se]

The Hauppauge site says it records 1080p30, not 1080p60. Would that "mess up" the appearance of the recorded video?

[redondo_se]

Originally Posted by tvmaster2

sooo then...are we to assume the analogue hole just got plugged up? An HD-PVR without component/spdif is no use to me...ooo - stereo!

Oh man, that stinks. Unless you want to spend $400 on and HDFury4

[SHS]

Originally Posted by redondo_se

The Hauppauge site says it records 1080p30, not 1080p60. Would that "mess up" the appearance of the recorded video?

I have no idea rigth now but I have look in to that later on for now I'm force to use Component Video Cable becuases of HDMI + HDCP copy protection on some channel on DirecTV.
There other vendors jumped into the fray pan with similar products like Diamond Multimedia GC1000 it to only 1080p30
How evev it saying on spec page it video capturing just blow rigth out the box
NTSC Video Capture 720x480
PAL Video Capture 720x576
Or a really big goof up on there part
If what was posted here must be wrong the Fujitsu MB86H58 is H.264 hardware transcoder it not even H.264 hardware encoder.
With Magnum DXTPro H.264 hardware encoder which also dbl as H.264 hardware transcoder just like Hauppauge Colossus.
Here screenshot of HD-PVR 2 Graphedit

[SHS]

Originally Posted by Beefcake550

Why oh why couldn't they have released this before my original HDPVRs died and I replaced them with Colossus cards???? I gave up on Sage because I couldn't get the Colossus cards working properly in Sage. AAAACCCCKKKK!!!! I've been using WMC for the past 2 weeks without any problem but would have love to stick with Sage. I sold my extenders and everything!

There nothing wrong with the Colossus cards it just dosen't get along with SageTV.

[redondo_se]

Maybe this will be a workable solution to get toslink into this device:

http://www.monoprice.com/products/pr...seq=1&format=2

[KeithAbbott]

Originally Posted by redondo_se

Maybe this will be a workable solution to get toslink into this device:

http://www.monoprice.com/products/pr...seq=1&format=2

I tried one of those. Unless your STB does not have an HDMI output, I would get one of these instead: http://www.monoprice.com/products/pr...seq=1&format=2

And here's why: http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/showthread.php?t=58515