Get MVP or wait for 3.0

phantomfsoc · #1 05-05-2005, 03:41 PM

Hey guys,
I got a delema... I wanted to added a new client to the house for my sisters room. Her birthday is next week so I was planning on buying a MVP for her. But with the talk of Sage 3 comming out, I dunno if I should wait to see what it offers (maybe the talked about extender)
What do you guys think?
Thanks

zz5 · #2 05-05-2005, 05:05 PM

As far as I know, the extender is just a rebadged MVP.

dbfresh23 · #3 05-05-2005, 05:35 PM

I'd wait for v3 - supposedly they will be selling it for the same price, $99 - but it will include the client license. I'm pretty sure I read that somewhere. Hopefully the wait wont be too much longer though.

PGPfan · #4 05-05-2005, 06:19 PM

Definately buy it now. You could wait, but it IS just a rebadge of the existing MVP, nothing new hardware wise. Plus, Frey has mentioned that they will create a client license program for those that already have the MVP, in addition to bundling it with hardware.

-PGPfan

phantomfsoc · #5 05-05-2005, 06:40 PM

Thanks Guys

cpals · #6 05-05-2005, 06:41 PM

If I buy a MVP.... can I play divx files through it? I tried reading the MVP thread, but there is too much...

What I want to do: PVR stuff, watch my divx movies, play mp3s and photos...

Can the MVP do this?

THanks

phantomfsoc · #7 05-05-2005, 06:54 PM

anyone in canada buy a MVP and if so where did you get it?

Wheemer · #8 05-05-2005, 06:59 PM

The only place I'm aware of it being for sale in the GTA is http://www.accountwizard.com/clients...em&itemid=1927

SHS · #9 05-05-2005, 07:06 PM

divx files through it? not really all that well I say forget about divx, xivd for now in tell there a ture blue MVP divx, xivd hardware decoder.

cpals · #10 05-05-2005, 07:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SHS

divx files through it? not really all that well I say for get about divx, xivd for now in tell there a ture blue MVP divx, xivd hardware decoder.

Well, I just have a lot of old divx files I had (over 100) and I wanted to be able to play them.... no go?

THanks.

Fluffdaddy · #11 05-05-2005, 10:24 PM

No Go

dajota · #12 05-07-2005, 07:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by phantomfsoc

anyone in canada buy a MVP and if so where did you get it?

I've been looking too, approx $120 cdn:
http://www.infonec.com/site/main.php...detail&id=1295
http://www.ncix.com/products/index.p...ture=HAUPPAUGE

phantomfsoc · #13 05-10-2005, 10:44 PM

I found it at Mostly Digital . I ordered it thusday and it was here on Monday. It came too 144 with taxes and shipping. Have it all hooked up right now and the stock sofware is working, now I'm gonna try the sage Plug-In
Thanks Guys

dajota · #14 05-11-2005, 05:41 PM

I would like to hear your thought about how it works. I'm trying to decide whether to run the client on a PIII or go with the media MVP

phantomfsoc · #15 05-11-2005, 06:58 PM

Well so far I spent all night last night trying to set it up, because of my own stupidity. I finally got back to it today and it was done in 5 mins. I'll be watching TV on it tonight to test it out but so far it seems pretty good. I'll update again tomorrow

ruel · #16 05-11-2005, 07:00 PM

haven't looked at this for a while, and this may be old news by now, but i just went over to the hauppauge page for the media mvp and it now says that it supports divx.

http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/produ..._mediamvp.html
http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/suppo..._mediamvp.html

PGPfan · #17 05-11-2005, 07:16 PM

Sadly, it is old news. It doesn't support Divx as we'd like. What it does is 'transcode on the fly' and streams an mpeg2 stream (that is natively supported) for viewing. That is why the minimum CPU is so high for Divx playback.

-PGPfan

phantomfsoc · #18 05-12-2005, 03:50 PM

SO I've been using the MVP off and on for the past 24hrs and so far its dam good.
It does everything Sage does including Comskip (haven't tried mapping CUSTOM 4 & 5 remote codes but it does auto skip comercials)
I have NOT had one studder in video playback but there are a few really small issues. 1: is that the menus are a bit slow. You hit down and it takes 1/2 sec to respond. 2: while watching a recorded show the time bar at the bottom was off, meaning I was 1/2hr into the show but it was reporting 1hr but it still played fine.
There might be some other stuff wrong but honestly I havn't noticed anything worth complaining about. I recommend getting this maybe if you already have a main client (in the living room or something) and want to add some clients to bedrooms or other rooms that won't have as much heavy use. But all in all Money well spent.
PS: The way I'm running the MVP is by Having SAGETV service mode on my server. Then on the same PC I have SAGE.exe -client for the MVP. Obvisouly the system is being pushed cause I have an FTP, SAGE, Comskip, and other crap running in the BG but not a hiccup on any of my clients. (now that I wrote all this watch as all my systems CRASH AND BURN!!!)

Toddly · #19 05-12-2005, 09:44 PM

I run Sage server with comskip and 2 MVP's on my newer machine and everything runs really well. I am very happy with what it does and remote response time is pretty darn good.

Radar · #20 05-13-2005, 12:44 PM

Has anyone been able to successfully setup wireless game adapters with an MVP? I got a couple from a recent Woot but so far I can't get a connection. When I went through the setup on the PC I got it working, not so plugged into the MVP. I'm wondering if I have to manually set the details instead of using DHCP for the adapter. Any hints?

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