Hauppauge HVR-2200 - What a fantastic PCIe Dual Digital TV Tuner

Mark1 · **26th February 2008, 07:26 PM**

Finally, a tuner card that works goddammit.

Anyone with a Dvico card should get rid of it and get one of these babies.
Anyone experiencing problems with their current brand card should also get rid of it and get one too.

Yep, Its that good...

Here, its not just my opinion, this is what 2 other reviews said -
au-Review Hauppauge HVR-2200 Digital Tuner
New Magic Australia Introduces Hauppauge HVR2200 PCIe Low Profile TV Tuner

Its OEM, so that packaging isn't nice and colourful. But that only means you get more bang for your buck with out paying for the pretty box. And it has no remote, but hey, I have a M$ remote anyway. Again, they can spend that money on the Tuner card, I don't mind, thats what I paid for.

An 8MB VISTA driver download (this card is actually designed to run... properly... in Vista MCE) and 15 seconds later its up and running.
Not a signal issue, stutter issue, channel 9 white screen issue (thanks Dvico) to be seen.
Channel changing is truly lightning fast (when I read that on a review somewhere, I thought, yea right).

If anyone whats to ask any questions, or has anything to add, please post.

poodletarmac · **26th February 2008, 08:06 PM**

Yep Just the most obvious questions.

Where did you get it?
How much did it cost? and
How long from order to delivery if you bought over the net.

Cheers

/Poodletarmac

Zilch · **26th February 2008, 08:22 PM**

Any problems with it not being recognised after S3 sleep?

(And yeah, I hate having to pay for a remote I will never use anyway)

Mark1 · **26th February 2008, 09:12 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by poodletarmac

Yep Just the most obvious questions.

Where did you get it?
How much did it cost? and
How long from order to delivery if you bought over the net.

Cheers

/Poodletarmac

I used staticICE, here is my search result -
www.staticice.com.au
And rang Adelaide Online Computers (just down the road from me).
They ordered it for me, took 2 working days to come from Melbourne I think.
I picked it up today.
Paid $215.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zilch

Any problems with it not being recognised after S3 sleep?

(And yeah, I hate having to pay for a remote I will never use anyway)

Yea, I plan on checking that soon. Maybe tonight or in the next few days. Stay tuned

. My wife is enjoying some problem free TV viewing at the moment. I don't want to disrupt her.

Mark1 · **26th February 2008, 10:38 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zilch

Any problems with it not being recognised after S3 sleep?

(And yeah, I hate having to pay for a remote I will never use anyway)

I remember when I first put my HTPC together, I selected S3 in the BIOS.
And I'm pretty sure it goes into S3 sleep.
When I select [sleep] in the Media Center menu, the computer goes completely dead (after 10 or so seconds) - fans, lights, everything. So I believe that is S3.
When I turn on again, Media Center comes back instantly. I've never really used S3, I normally turn off completely. I was amazed how fast Media Center resumed.

Anyway, long story short, no probs with tuner. Able to watch LiveTV straight away.

TheRob · **27th February 2008, 10:08 AM**

Can this card be mounted in a normal height case, or does it only fit a low profile case?

logifuse · **27th February 2008, 10:21 AM**

It's supposed to come with both brackets.

Justin

johnny5 · **27th February 2008, 10:56 AM**

yep, it sure does come with both brackets.

Gemdarwen · **27th February 2008, 11:14 AM**

OK, I'm the first to admit that I'm not 100% sure about what all this means, except to say that the write up on the HVR-2200 is very appealing.

But - what is the difference between this card and say the TinyTwin Dual tuner from Digital Now (apart from the obvious USB v's PCIe interface).

Or even the DNTV Live! Dual Hybrid PCI-E S2 for Digital Now as well.

Previously I was leaning towards the Digital Now products as they had recevied some good writeups in this forum.

To a newbie like me the two PCIe cards seem similar, except that the Hauppauge one is about $60 dearer.

Now I'm getting confused again which card is better bang for buck.

TheRob · **27th February 2008, 11:54 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gemdarwen

But - what is the difference between this card and say the TinyTwin Dual tuner from Digital Now (apart from the obvious USB v's PCIe interface).

Or even the DNTV Live! Dual Hybrid PCI-E S2 for Digital Now as well.

Some answers in this thread.

I have the DNTV Live! Dual Hybrid PCI-E S2 and have been pretty impressed with it. This Hauppauge card is fairly new, so only time and a few more real life experiences with it will tell if it's in any way better or more stable than the DNTV stuff has proved to be. As you said, the DNTV is a fair bit cheaper, so if you're not going to use the analogue MPEG decoding functions on the Hauppauge mentioned in the other thread then I don't think you'll be disappointed with either of the DNTV cards you listed.