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don.sheehan at gmail

Oct 15, 2005, 4:19 PM

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150 or 150MCE

I am having trouble finding the answer in the old threads to what is
probably an easy question.
Can I safely buy a WinTV 150MCE instead of the higher priced 150?
What are the tradeoffs?
Thanks!

nick.rosier at gmail

Oct 15, 2005, 5:32 PM

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Re: 150 or 150MCE [In reply to]

On 16/10/05, Don Sheehan <don.sheehan[at]gmail.com> wrote:
> I am having trouble finding the answer in the old threads to what is
> probably an easy question.
>
> Can I safely buy a WinTV 150MCE instead of the higher priced 150?

Depends on what you want/need; the main differences are:
PVR150: remote, no radio
PVR150MCE: radio, no remote

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Oct 15, 2005, 5:35 PM

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Re: 150 or 150MCE [In reply to]

On 10/15/05, Nick Rosier <nick.rosier[at]gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 16/10/05, Don Sheehan <don.sheehan[at]gmail.com> wrote:
> > I am having trouble finding the answer in the old threads to what is
> > probably an easy question.
> >
> > Can I safely buy a WinTV 150MCE instead of the higher priced 150?
>
> Depends on what you want/need; the main differences are:
> PVR150: remote, no radio
> PVR150MCE: radio, no remote

The retail PVR150MCE comes with the Media Center remote and receiver.

Carl Fongheiser

chrisribe at gmail

Oct 15, 2005, 7:34 PM

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Re: 150 or 150MCE [In reply to]

My understanding is that the Media Center edition doesn't come with a remote
- you are expected to use your Media Center remote with it.

On 10/15/05, Carl Fongheiser <carlfongheiser[at]gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> On 10/15/05, Nick Rosier <nick.rosier[at]gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 16/10/05, Don Sheehan <don.sheehan[at]gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I am having trouble finding the answer in the old threads to what is
> > > probably an easy question.
> > >
> > > Can I safely buy a WinTV 150MCE instead of the higher priced 150?
> >
> > Depends on what you want/need; the main differences are:
> > PVR150: remote, no radio
> > PVR150MCE: radio, no remote
>
>
> The retail PVR150MCE comes with the Media Center remote and receiver.
>
> Carl Fongheiser
>
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joevph at yahoo

Oct 15, 2005, 11:25 PM

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Re: 150 or 150MCE [In reply to]

There is a "kit" of the PVR-150MCE that comes with an
MCE remote, versus the regular retail PVR-150 that
comes with the Hauppauge remote. How this would be at
retail, well, I don't know, I would think it would be
more of an OEM or "white box" thing.

http://www.hauppauge.com/pages/products/data_pvr150mcekit.html

-- Joe

--- Chris Ribe <chrisribe[at]gmail.com> wrote:

> My understanding is that the Media Center edition
> doesn't come with a remote
> - you are expected to use your Media Center remote
> with it.
>
> On 10/15/05, Carl Fongheiser
> <carlfongheiser[at]gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On 10/15/05, Nick Rosier <nick.rosier[at]gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > On 16/10/05, Don Sheehan <don.sheehan[at]gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > > I am having trouble finding the answer in the
> old threads to what is
> > > > probably an easy question.
> > > >
> > > > Can I safely buy a WinTV 150MCE instead of the
> higher priced 150?
> > >
> > > Depends on what you want/need; the main
> differences are:
> > > PVR150: remote, no radio
> > > PVR150MCE: radio, no remote
> >
> >
> > The retail PVR150MCE comes with the Media Center
> remote and receiver.
> >
> > Carl Fongheiser
> >
> >
> >
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g8ecj at gilks

Oct 16, 2005, 2:16 AM

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Re: 150 or 150MCE [In reply to]

Some parts of the world have the mce retail for sale (for example New
Zealand) which DOES include the remote - in my case a RC6 with a Philips
USB receiver. lirc-0.7.2 supports the usb remote out of the box (no ir
blaster yet though). Extra keys to the grey or black Hauppauge remote :-))

> My understanding is that the Media Center edition doesn't come with a
> remote
> - you are expected to use your Media Center remote with it.
>
> On 10/15/05, Carl Fongheiser <carlfongheiser[at]gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On 10/15/05, Nick Rosier <nick.rosier[at]gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > On 16/10/05, Don Sheehan <don.sheehan[at]gmail.com> wrote:
>> > > I am having trouble finding the answer in the old threads to what is
>> > > probably an easy question.
>> > >
>> > > Can I safely buy a WinTV 150MCE instead of the higher priced 150?
>> >
>> > Depends on what you want/need; the main differences are:
>> > PVR150: remote, no radio
>> > PVR150MCE: radio, no remote
>>
>>
>> The retail PVR150MCE comes with the Media Center remote and receiver.
>>
>> Carl Fongheiser
>>
>>
>>
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carlfongheiser at gmail

Oct 16, 2005, 2:34 AM

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Re: 150 or 150MCE [In reply to]

On 10/16/05, Joe Votour <joevph[at]yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> There is a "kit" of the PVR-150MCE that comes with an
> MCE remote, versus the regular retail PVR-150 that
> comes with the Hauppauge remote. How this would be at
> retail, well, I don't know, I would think it would be
> more of an OEM or "white box" thing.

No, I deliberately meant to say retail -- it was sold in a printed box
labelled "WinTV PVR-150 Media Center Kit." It's now available at most Best
Buy stores for $119.

Carl Fongheiser

pettersen at gmail

Oct 26, 2005, 7:58 AM

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Re: 150 or 150MCE [In reply to]

On 10/16/05, Carl Fongheiser <carlfongheiser[at]gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/16/05, Joe Votour <joevph[at]yahoo.com> wrote:
> > There is a "kit" of the PVR-150MCE that comes with an
> > MCE remote, versus the regular retail PVR-150 that
> > comes with the Hauppauge remote. How this would be at
> > retail, well, I don't know, I would think it would be
> > more of an OEM or "white box" thing.
>
> No, I deliberately meant to say retail -- it was sold in a printed box
> labelled "WinTV PVR-150 Media Center Kit." It's now available at most Best
> Buy stores for $119.
>
> Carl Fongheiser

I think for the purposes of the initial poster they are referring to
the PVR150 MCE (model 1042) which is pretty much an OEM white box
PVR150 with FM radio, RCA audio jacks, no IR chips/jack, and no
included remote/blaster.

The PVR150 retail edition (model 1045) comes with a remote/Ir blaster,
has a 1/8" stereo minijack for audio input (*sigh*), and a pretty
box/warranty.

There is, as Carl points out a new model 1062 retail "kit" which is a
PVR150MCE card with a MCE compatible/certified USB IR
remote/blaster/etc... designed for MCE 2005.

To the original poster... If you just need the card itself and have no
need for the remote control/blaster or have designs on other
remote/etc... the pvr150MCE is pretty much "driver compatible" with
the retail edition and you can save yourself a few bucks.

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mythtv at lost

Oct 27, 2005, 1:50 AM

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Re: 150 or 150MCE [In reply to]

On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Erik Pettersen wrote:

> There is, as Carl points out a new model 1062 retail "kit" which is a
> PVR150MCE card with a MCE compatible/certified USB IR
> remote/blaster/etc... designed for MCE 2005.

Btw, is anybody here who has this USB IR and it works with Linux? I mean
works well. I have it and when I teach remotes I get always config with
timings instead of codes and these timings are not very accurate (later
when I use my IR it accepts onlt one keypress out of 2-5). Also I have
noticed that the LED in IR receiver sometimes blinks just because of
normal light.

---
Cougar

g8ecj at gilks

Oct 27, 2005, 3:42 AM

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Re: 150 or 150MCE [In reply to]

>
> On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Erik Pettersen wrote:
>
>> There is, as Carl points out a new model 1062 retail "kit" which is a
>> PVR150MCE card with a MCE compatible/certified USB IR
>> remote/blaster/etc... designed for MCE 2005.
>
> Btw, is anybody here who has this USB IR and it works with Linux? I mean
> works well. I have it and when I teach remotes I get always config with
> timings instead of codes and these timings are not very accurate (later
> when I use my IR it accepts onlt one keypress out of 2-5). Also I have
> noticed that the LED in IR receiver sometimes blinks just because of
> normal light.
>

I'm using the 2005mce usb remote that is so new that it has new buttons on
it (look for enter and cancel buttons at the bottom).

I used the lirc.conf file that came from Martin Blatter (the guy who wrote
the mceusb2 driver - Google is your friend) and after adding the codes for
the 2 extra buttons (obvious what they were as there was a break in the
number sequence) it works great.

Range is good, view angle is OK on the receiver - I think the remote
itself has a quite narrow transmit beam so it has to be pointing the right
way!
Shame the IR blaster is not yet supported. On my list to run a usb tracer
on a windows box to see what gets sent down the usb cable so I can drop
the serial irsend for the sat box.

I tried teaching it - had the same problem you had hence using the prepaid
file :-))

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