Elgato adds support for the Hauppauge HD-PVR

by Steven Kim posted Jan 9th 2009 at 3:41AM

Until now, people wanting a Mac HTPC that takes advantage of the good old analog hole have been limited to using the Hauppauge HD-PVR and SageTV. Thanks to Elgato adding support for the hardware into its EyeTV software, however, there should be some choice soon. Support for the hardware has been in beta since November, but users with a little bit of nerve can sign up to get in on the action. The HD-PVR may not be the most elegant solution to recording protected HD content down to disk, but at least it's workable; so if you're an EyeTV user who's been itching to add something beyond Clear QAM to your DVR's diet it's worth checking out.

Filed under: DVRs, Media PCs, Others

Tags: clear-qam, elgato, eyetv, hauppauge, hd-pvr, mac, osx

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

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phil @ Jan 9th 2009 9:45AM

This writer should learn how to communicate to the NON-GEEKS who read this. I have no idea what this product is and what it does. If only Geeks like him buy it the product will be a clear failure.

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Brent @ Jan 9th 2009 10:09AM

Sheez Phil,
Give him a break, Steve is a great writer. The Hauppauge HD-PVR is a device that allows you to record digital content from a cable, satellite, game machine etc from the component out port. Basically its bypassing the protections keeping us from recording encrypted content. Its used mostly with HTPC setups to view liveTV or record TV. This content previously was only accessible to HTPCs from a CableCard PC via Microsoft.

To be fair to Steve, actually this device will sell mostly to geeks because of the complicated setups for HTPCs ;)

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Ren @ Jan 9th 2009 1:24PM

Hey M$, how about some support for this in media center?

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Rivertrance @ Feb 3rd 2009 12:27AM

The latest Driver is very stable. The recordings are AVCHD and PS3 spec compliant... which is nice for editing and overall playback support.
I rec from my Comcast DVR to my PC ,,,and stream back to my PS3 for playback. This is the ideal set-up and I highly recommend it.
My movie Library is growing faster than even ;)

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