Hauppauge WinTV HD PVR (H.264) screenshot and pre-order link

[Fluffdaddy]

Originally Posted by HKme

..Such a pain to know that it's probably sitting on a ship heading from China to the US just so I can pay $62 to send it right back

Now that's funny

[Ryand833]

Well, I ordered an HD-PVR from hauppauge's webpage on April 30th from their webstore, and got my order confirmation immediately, but hadn't heard anything from them since then, so I decided to e-mail them and I'll post the response I got from them for everyone here who may be wondering where your order is:

Thank you for your order for the HD-PVR. We know that you are anxiously awaiting delivery and we are doing everything we can to expedite shipment from our manufacturer. Unfortunately we have run into a short production delay on the plastic cases but we are expecting to ship your order by the end of the month. If they come in any sooner, they will immediately ship out to you.

We apologize for this delay. We understand your disappointment. We thank you for your patience.

http://www.hauppauge.com/site/products/data_hdpvr.html

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[Bandit]

Originally Posted by Fluffdaddy

Now that's funny

Yeah it was, I actually called a couple co-workers over to read it

[CollinR]

Cases? We don't need to stinking cases!

[Ryand833]

Exactly... I'd be happy if everything was just stuck together with duct tape.

[Fluffdaddy]

Merge coming

[Ryand833]

Originally Posted by Fluffdaddy

Merge coming

Ah darn, just saw the other topic.

Sorry all.

[bcjenkins]

Well at least it is $US

[B-Figgy]

Edit: Beaten. By a few hours? How did I miss the last page of the thread? You see how anxious I am now waiting for this thing.

I got this e-mail today from Dorothy at Hauppauge

Originally Posted by Dorothy

Thank you for your order for the HD-PVR. We know that you are anxiously awaiting delivery and we are doing everything we can to expedite shipment from our manufacturer. Unfortunately we have run into a short production delay on the plastic cases but we are expecting to ship your order by the end of the month. If they come in any sooner, they will immediately ship out to you.

We apologize for this delay. We understand your disappointment. We thank you for your patience.


Regards,

Dorothy

Hauppauge Sales Team

And I replied with my former post about taking a unit without the case. We shall see

[bialio]

Originally Posted by B-Figgy

Edit: Beaten. By a few hours? How did I miss the last page of the thread? You see how anxious I am now waiting for this thing.

Beaten by 3 days actually

[Addict]

Well, I waited for a while to see if SageTV released a branded version of this...and no word. So, I emailed Sage and George said he didn't know where that stood...

I hope, for SageTV's sake, they didn't just lose potential business from me!

I'm in the delivery queue with Hauppauge! Whoo!

[btrcp2000]

Narflex just announced the latest beta with support for the hd pvr. So yay us! And boo Dorothy (although I'm sure she's a lovely person)

[SHS]

Dose HD PVR supports closed captions?

No, but it is on the list of things to add in a future release drivers.
Some may have saw there Blue Ligth in newer screen shot photo and I did find out that this can be turn on amd off.

[karpodiem]

I can't wait for this thing to drop - it's really going to shake things up

[Eckwell]

Interestingly enough I just got a proactive email from Hauppauge with the following:

Thank you for your order for the HD-PVR. We know that you are anxiously awaiting delivery and we are doing everything we can to expedite shipment from our manufacturer. Unfortunately we have run into a short production delay on the plastic cases but we are expecting to ship your order by the end of the month. If they come in any sooner, they will immediately ship out to you.

We apologize for this delay. We understand your disappointment. We thank you for your patience.

Regards,



Just thought I would pass it on.

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[waynedunham]

Originally Posted by Eckwell

Interestingly enough I just got a proactive email from Hauppauge with the following:

8< snip >8

I received the same email from them. Then again I DO have to get off my lazy butt and actually order HD from the cable co. Right now I've just got digital and am using my HDHomeRun to grab the unencrypted locals.

[kevinlwh]

Originally Posted by waynedunham

I received the same email from them. Then again I DO have to get off my lazy butt and actually order HD from the cable co. Right now I've just got digital and am using my HDHomeRun to grab the unencrypted locals.

I received the standard message too, but Dorothy (or someone on their sales team) actually took the time to complete my spam blocker form--I tend to block ALL email but known addresses. I've never had a company take the few minutes to complete this form just to make sure I add their address and get their message. Yeah Dorothy!

[morikaweb]

Well tomorrow (Thursday may 15'th) is officially the middle of the month. So theoretically the first group should be shipping soon.

[mayamaniac]

For those of you pre-ordering, how are you planning to get SageTV to change the channels on the HD STB? Anyone got channel changing working via firewire for a motorola DCH3200? Or IR Blaster is the way to go?

[gplasky]

At first I will work with the IR blaster on the HD-PVR. That's going to be the "more supported" way I would think. I also have a USB-UIRT I used to use with the STB and that worked good.

Gerry