Hauppage HVR-2250 Owner's Thread - Page 3

It is kind of discouraging. If it plugs to the card, can it still be used to wake up PC?

most things I read about this card tell me to stay away. what is answer wil Vista Home Premium do clear qam and still operate on all 4 tuners?

I couldn't get it to work with the 1250 with plug into card. I bought my 2250 back when they used a real USB remote. The type that plugs into the card requires software to function so I don't see how it can wake a computer.

You mean they used to ship the HVR-2250 with a USB based IR sensor but not anymore? Bummer.

Yes, they used to ship with a real USB remote.

Ok, I have one 2250 in my Win7 HTPC and want to add another one. Do I need to go through the whole CD install routine, or will Windows find the right drivers since one 2250 is already installed?

And, is there any trick to configuring this? I'm hoping to resolve issues where I have three shows I need to record simultaneously.

Currently, the existing 2250 is configured for analog cable and clear QAM, which is how I was hoping to configure this one. However, if it's smarter to do the second card ATSC, I can do that too.

Thanks in advance.

Doc

A Avermedia duet will run you about 1/2 the cost of the 2250. The only advantage the 2250 has is the ability to handle analog.

Thing is, the second 2250 is already en route. Was happy enough with the first one to get the second. Though it or another card could end up in the XP machine I'm typing on now. It has an Angel dual tuner that fails about once a week requiring power down, reinsertion, reboot.

I added a 2nd 2250 to my HTPC a few weeks ago. I forget off the top of my head if it automatically loaded the driver, or if I had to point it to the drivers again. I have my ATSC antenna connected to both of my 2250s. I did have to setup W7MC to use both tuners. You can setup one tuner card's channels and there is an option to apply the changes to the other tuner card. I haven't tried configuring the 2nd card different from the first.

Recording 3 shows at once is a snap. Just go into the W7MC guide and select record or record-series for the shows.

Thanks. I'll configure them the same for now, since the QAM from my cableco is actually very good and I've been known to leave my antenna pointed at Toledo, causing me to miss OTA shows set to record from Detroit stations.

I never even used the CD with mine. I let Windows 7 search Windows Update for drivers and it installed them "in box". Since you have already installed the CD though, the drivers will automatically be loaded for the second card.


There should be no issue with configuring the new one for analog and clear QAM as well. This will give you 4 tuners that can be used to record either signal so it should solve your three show problem and still leave you one tuner for Live TV.

I have the 2250. It is connected to QAM 256 source. When I record programs that have scrolling text (i.e. something on ABC / ESPN with the scroll at the bottom) the text is blurry. The picture looks good but blurry text. When I play back anything else the picture is perfect. Any ideas?

1080i display?

Sounds like either a deinterlacing or resizing problem.

I have the 2250 and it has been working great for me for months. I'm running Win7 64-bit with Media Center, and am feeding it with Comcast's basic clear QAM signal.

Last week, I started having problems recording any clear QAM channels. I found tonight that my scheduled recordings of QAM channels fail, but I can tune in those channels and watch them live just fine. I can even pause the live playback, and in effect, record the show. But if I hit the actual record button, the signal drops out and the show disappears. I simply get a "Service is unavailable" message. Analog channels appear to record just fine.

Any ideas? I did try calling Comcast already, but they are clueless about clear QAM.

Hmm, maybe they enabled the protected-content bit for those shows. I remember an incident a year or two ago where some people didn't get their shows recorded on NBC because they (inadvertently?) enabled the protected content setting for those shows.

I'm not a Comcast customer, though.

I think this (or something like it) is what they've done. I emailed them and actually got some useful information (way better than their phone help):


I sent them back some more questions explaining that this last part is the part that's not working right for me.

I found a solution to my problems over here: http://thegreenbutton.com/forums/p/8...89.aspx#451989

I don't know what Comcast did on their end, nor why Media Center got confused by it, but running "Auto Select" on the Guide seems to have allowed me to record my local broadcast channels again.

At first glance the dual connectors on the 2250 had me hoping the dual tuners had separate individual RF inputs. Upon closer reading I see now that is not the case and the 2nd RF connector is for FM. Really? FM? Who on God's green Earth would want FM or the ability to pasue & record FM?

Alas, I digress. I'm wanting to be able to have ATSC Cable, Clear QAM cable and also tune the local OTA channels. Is anyone doing this and if so, how?
Thanks!

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10 out of 10 people would say the design is stupid. This does not prevent Hauppauge from pumping out the card. The only device that has 2 independent RF inputs and capable of tuning to ATSC and QAM independently is HDHomeRun. Which is an external tuner box and very much out of the question.

I like that the tuner is shorted internally. I have 2 of these cards all hooked up to my OTA antenna. If they had separate connectors for each tuner, then I'd need a 1:4 splitter for my antenna instead of a 1:2 splitter. It does suck if you want one to be connected to OTA and another to cable/QAM. But having only one tuner per source sucks, too; I always want to be able to record one thing while watching another.

Can someone please explain how the hell to install this wintv crap. My cd is 7.1 which errors when I try and run it, ok whatever, so explore folder and run exe itself. Fine but I want to update to 7.3e the latest version on the website. I try and run it, it errors as well some crap about auto play "tool for creating autoplay CD and DVD has stopped working".

So yea ok so I go to the temp directory where it puts files to install run it from there and now it says 7.2 must be installed before you can continue with 7.3 install....ugh. So my cd is 7.1, go to their site it says 7.2 is $10......seriously come on now wtf.

I think I can get away with using an external 2-way splitter hooked up backwards, like a signal combiner and as long as there's no frequency conflict it should work. The port-to-port isolation between legs of the splitter are around -30 dB which should keep the cable company (and aircraft nav. frequencies) happy in ref. to egress radiation. All I can do is try it.

I would be one of those people. I record two FM shows featuring Irish/Celtic music on two different stations every Saturday night. I am never home on Saturday night, so being able to record these shows and then transfer them to my mp3 player for playback on my ride to work is a great thing. I love my 2250.

Obviously different strokes for different folks. .

I'm looking to get two of the 2250 cards to replace my PVR-500 tuner on my WinXP HTPC. Are these still good cards to get these days? I'm wanting to hook it up to Cox cable coming out of Phoenix for clearQAM and NTSC...no OTA way out here where I'm at.

They are a little CPU intensive. Be sure to check the recommended hardware requirements. I tried with an AMD 2600+ and it was no-go. Working great with a core-I5 system.

Isn't the HVR-2250 has hardware encoder? ClearQAM also does not need any encoding. Why would it be CPU intensive?

I don't know. With OTA signals @ 1080i my old AMD 2600+ came to its knees. With the Core -I5 it's loafing along, although I noticed about a 4-degree rise in internal case temperature.

The HVR2250 seems like a nice unit, pretty happy so far, only disappointed that it's a common RF input to the dual tuners. I was hoping for separate RF so I could have dual signal source (OTA + Cable).

Presently using it with ORB Live to stream live TV, like slingbox to my iPad
Working great

Chances are it is your harddrive that is not able to keep up with the multichannel recording.