WinTV-PVR-150 / WinTV-PVR-150 "MCE" TV Tuner Cards

Whats the difference between the 2 cards? Do you have to use the card that
has the "MCE" suffix for Media Center Edition?

We can only buy the non MCE card from the local distributor here in South
Africa.

My other option is to buy the Leadtek PVR2000 but I only hear bad things
about this card on this news group.

thanks

 

The cards are identical AFAIK but the non-MCE one comes with a remote & software
for use on a non-MCE system. The 'MCE' card is cheaper as it omits the remote.

 

The cards are not at all identical. The MCE has no remote, but does
have an FM tuner. These are real hardware differences. Also, the
softtware supplied with the two cards is different ... VERY different.

 

This week a neighbor went to get a regular 150PVR card of optained a 150MCE
card at the local BB since it had a picture of a remote on the box and he
assumed it was regular 150 PVR card. It turned out that the 150 MCE now
comes wtih an MCE remote and is more expensive thant the 150 PVR card.

 

There may now be a "retail" version of the 150MCE that comes with an MCE
remote, but previously there wasn't, the 150MCE existed only as an "OEM"
white-box product.

I suspect, however, that you are still dealing with two different cards.
I'm guessing (and it's just a guess, I could be wrong) that the
"retail" 150MCE is the old OEM 150MCE card (no remote, but with FM
tuner) bundled with an MCE remote and a USB receiver. Whereas, I think,
on the 150 (non-MCE), which does not have an FM tuner, the remote
receiver connected to the tuner card and was not a USB device, plus, of
course, it was a Hauppauge proprietary remote and not the Microsoft MCE
remote.

But it would be nice to see this clarified.

 

You are entirely correct at least as far as I can tell from the Hauppauge UK web
site.

WinTV-PVR-150 http://www.hauppauge.co.uk/pages/products/data_pvr150.html
WinTV-PVR-150MCE http://www.hauppauge.co.uk/pages/products/data_pvr150mce.html
WinTV-PVR-150 MCE-Kit with MCE remote
http://www.hauppauge.co.uk/pages/products/data_pvr150mcekit.html

 

Ok, I'll defintely go for the MCE version then. How do I get the MCE remote
control then if I'm building my own MCE PC?

thank you

 

The remote controls are sold by most distributors of computer parts
(Newegg has them, I think that Amazon and Buy.com have them also, and
probably zipzoomfly). They are also available on E-Bay. About $40,
give or take, for the version that you want. There are at least two
Microsoft versions, plus some non-Microsoft versions. You want the
latest Microsoft version. Also, be sure that you get the remote, the
receiver and TWO IR transmitters, sometimes the packages being sold are
incomplete.

Well, this should help, this is what you want:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16880100851

 

You buy the last package that Nigel listed since as he stated it includes
an MCE remote and not a Hauppauge PVR remote.

 

awesome, let the games begin.
thanks for all the tips...