Cost reasons to go with dual 150's vs a single 500

[AJ Bertelson]

Does anyone have any idea how much the 500 white box will cost? Rite now I see the 150's(whitebox) going for 66 bucks. The only reason I can see going with the 500 is to save a single PCI slot.

[krutaw]

Originally Posted by AJ Bertelson

Does anyone have any idea how much the 500 white box will cost? Rite now I see the 150's(whitebox) going for 66 bucks. The only reason I can see going with the 500 is to save a single PCI slot.

I gotta agree here. The info that I read over on SHS's site said that the PVR-500 was going to go for 199. This is almost triple what I could buy a pair of PVR-150's for.

I think what I'm going to end up doing is adding a PVR-150 to my system, thus ending up with the following:

PVR-150
PVR-250
PVR-350

hehe

[stanger89]

Originally Posted by krutaw

I gotta agree here. The info that I read over on SHS's site said that the PVR-500 was going to go for 199. This is almost triple what I could buy a pair of PVR-150's for.

FWIW, that's MSRP, and I believe MSRP on the 150's is $99, so take the same discount available on the 150s, and the 500 could be in the $120-150 range. Of course that still only saves you a PCI slot.

[AJ Bertelson]

One of the things that I have noted with the 150 vs the 500 is that for the people not wanting to use the analog tuners we still have to factor in the cost for that breakout box that fits in the floppy drive.

Anyone have a clue on how much that will cost?

[stanger89]

Originally Posted by AJ Bertelson

One of the things that I have noted with the 150 vs the 500 is that for the people not wanting to use the analog tuners we still have to factor in the cost for that breakout box that fits in the floppy drive.

Oh, you reminded me, for those using the tuners, the 500 avoids the need for a splitter

Anyone have a clue on how much that will cost?

Probably depends on how resourceful you are, if you build one yourself or buy a pre-fab one

[broderp]

Originally Posted by stanger89

Oh, you reminded me, for those using the tuners, the 500 avoids the need for a splitter

Are you sure? The picture on the Hauppauge web site looks like it has TWO coax inputs.... If you look close enough, you can read he words "xxx IN" on both coax inputs.

I think we still need splitters..

[mikejaner]

One is FM In, and one is Ant In

[Opus4]

Originally Posted by mikejaner

one is Ant In

Those darn little bugs crawl into everything!

To repeat from another thread here: See this thread on SHS's forum for some info on the 500. As Mike said too: One coax is for TV, the other is for FM.

- Andy

[infiniti_guy]

Anyone know what the quality diff is between 150 and 250 cards?

[mikejaner]

it's indistinguishable
The difference between the two is only a technical thing, the reality is you won't be able to tell.

[broderp]

Originally Posted by Opus4

Those darn little bugs crawl into everything!

To repeat from another thread here: See this thread on SHS's forum for some info on the 500. As Mike said too: One coax is for TV, the other is for FM.

- Andy

Yeah! Now to deal with the REMOTE issue......