You can buy the WinTV-PVR-500MCE

[ToxMox]

WooHoo! I just got an email that my 2 500s are shipping today. :bounce:

[edbmdave]

Another confirmation. Talked with Hauppauge and they are shipping to vendors.. Talked with Buy.Com and they still don't have any, and now estimate on when they wil.. GRUMBLE... At Least they are starting to show up now.

[sudipto]

Originally Posted by ToxMox

WooHoo! I just got an email that my 2 500s are shipping today. :bounce:

Congratulations ! Who was your vendor, if you don't mind me asking ?

[ToxMox]

Shopblt.com

[ToxMox]

Welp just to update my cards just arrived and they are very pretty I'll update again when I've installed them which I'll probably do tonight or tomorrow. It is a Christmas miracle.

[ToxMox]

Ok I installed these cards this morning and this is my update:

Had a PVR-350, 2xPVR-250(15)s, and a PVR-USB2 tuner.
In Sage I removed all the sources then quit Sage and stopped and disabled the service.
Then I ran the hcwclear that came on the CD for the 500 and let it remove everything.
Shutdown. Pulled the 350 and a 250 out and inserted both 500s. Unplugged the usb cable from the USB2 tuner and started up the PC.

Windows detected on bootup and just pointed the hardware wizard to the 500 CD which contains drivers for the pretty much all of Hauppauge's PVR cards except for the 350 which may have been in there too but didn't notice. The drivers installed beautifully then I connected the usb cable back into the USB2 tuner. (It was probably unneccessary for me to unplug it in the first place)
Pointed the hardware wizard once again to search the CD and let it install. It wanted to replace one newer file with an older one for the USB2 but I made it keep the newer file. Then rebooted. Then started up the service etc and Sage and added all the tuners and tested them. Was taping 6 shows at once without a hitch. Just for good measure turned off Sage and rebooted once more. Everything seems to be groovy.
So I'm pretty happy.
On a side note the cards are larger than the 350 or 250s in length. Just something to be aware of when building a system.

[gwynethh]

I should have my card from Buy.com Monday!

[Crashless]

Originally Posted by ToxMox

Everything seems to be groovy.
So I'm pretty happy.

That is GREAT news! One question though, what OS are you running?

[sudipto]

WooHoo !!! My PVR 500MCE shipped from Buy.com too !! Should be here Wednesday.

Buy.com took "only" 42 days to ship my order but I am glad that they at least shipped it finally

[ToxMox]

Originally Posted by Crashless

That is GREAT news! One question though, what OS are you running?

XP Pro SP2

[White94Cobra]

FYI -

shopblt.com shows 11 of the WinTV-PVR 500's in stock. Actually, 9 now, I just ordered two.

http://www.shopblt.com/cgi-bin/shop/...!#Availability

[White94Cobra]

Originally Posted by ToxMox

Ok I installed these cards this morning and this is my update:

Had a PVR-350, 2xPVR-250(15)s, and a PVR-USB2 tuner.
In Sage I removed all the sources then quit Sage and stopped and disabled the service.
Then I ran the hcwclear that came on the CD for the 500 and let it remove everything.
Shutdown. Pulled the 350 and a 250 out and inserted both 500s. Unplugged the usb cable from the USB2 tuner and started up the PC.

When removing all sources, doesn't that remove all of your favorites? My concern is having Sage delete all of my shows if I remove all sources.

[ToxMox]

Originally Posted by White94Cobra

When removing all sources, doesn't that remove all of your favorites? My concern is having Sage delete all of my shows if I remove all sources.

Nope.

[Opus4]

Just to add to "Nope"... Favorites are source-independent, are stored in wiz.bin, and are not removed when any source is removed. If a Favorite is limited to a certain channel & you remove that channel, you won't get any new recordings, but the fav is not removed. Alternately, if you add a new source, your favs will be able to be recorded from any new channels (unless, of course, it is limited to a certain network/channel).

Removing sources should have no effect on your existing recordings.

- Andy

[ToxMox]

LOL... I didn't have time earlier to give any kind of a descriptive answer and was going to fill in the blanks later but I'm glad you did it instead Andy

[Opus4]

heh... I just couldn't resist adding that in case anyone was curious.

- Andy

[jptaz]

Only 2 left at www.shopblt.com.

Just ordered mine and it is shipping today.

They 10 left here:

http://www.spacecentersystems.com/ca...a14f43e67a0a7a

Later,
John

[edbmdave]

Going to install it now on top of Sage TV 2.2.2 (beta), will report on results.

[Karen0302]

I followed the link provided to shopblt and noticed in the description that the card comes with only the MCE 2005 drivers. Does this mean it will only work on the MCE edition of Windows?

Karen

[SHS]

Karen no it work should work any PVR software package at lease one that support Hardware Encoder and it also run under Windows 2000 Pro and I have tested SageTV, BeyondTV, GB-PVR and all them seem be work just fine.