The Hauppauge HD PVR “in the lab” at SnapStream
April 7th, 2008 at 8:16 pm by Rakesh
Since there’s been some excitement about the upcoming Hauppauge HD PVR product, I thought I’d share some photographs of Hauppauge’s new product “in the lab” here at SnapStream:
Here’s a photograph of the Hauppauge HD PVR prototype board itself — everyone had to be careful to ground themselves before handling it.
Here’s another pic of the HD PVR all wired up to a digital source via component video cables (those are the blue, green and red cables).
This one shows the HD PVR in action — the red light means Beyond TV is busy making a recording off this thing when the photograph was taken.
The final product — some good ‘ol baseball recorded on the Hauppauge HD PVR in Beyond TV
A close-up of the same frame (I took it without a flash, holding the camera in my hand, so there might be a slight blur)
April 7th, 2008 at 9:25 pm
Love the case
Thanks for sharing though - as you said there is lots of excitement for this thin. Thanks for the photos!
April 7th, 2008 at 10:06 pm
Can you please post the original full size pics.
April 7th, 2008 at 10:21 pm
[...] has pictures here of BeyondTV working from a prototype Hauppauge HD PVR. One caption reads “the red light [...]
April 8th, 2008 at 12:50 am
YES! I ordered Directv HD today and its going to be installed on Wednesday morning, the HD PVR is “On Order”.. YES!
April 8th, 2008 at 6:36 am
Thanks for posting, looks like it works without a hitch in Beyondtv (since you recorded with it). That’s big news, worth a preorder. BTW, What are the file sizes per hour, at what resolution?
April 8th, 2008 at 8:28 am
SouthPaw, Not sure if this is what you’re looking for but the Ambarella chip logo is clearly visible in these pictures.
April 8th, 2008 at 9:17 am
[...] out. Hopefully Hauppauge can add support by years end. Price is $250 per device.Update: SnapStream Blog has photos of it working with Beyond TV. Looks like the data corruption bug in Windows Home Server [...]
April 8th, 2008 at 9:51 am
Can you give us your impressions of how the captured video compares visually to the pre-captured source video?
April 8th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
[...] The Snapstream Blog has pics of the soon-to-be-released Hauppauge HD-PVR in action, albeit without a case. Pics here. [...]
April 8th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
[...] The Hauppauge HD PVR “in the lab” at SnapStream - SnapStream Blog Very happy Rakesh decided to publicly post these pictures and imply Beyond TV will support this highly anticipated device. (tags: Hauppauge HDTV TVTuner Snapstream BeyondTV) [...]
April 8th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
RE> Dave Zatz Says
RE> SouthPaw, Not sure if this is what you’re looking for
RE> but the Ambarella chip logo is clearly visible in
RE> these pictures.
The Ambarella chips only handle stereo audio. I am trying to see what other chips there might be to handle digital audio
April 9th, 2008 at 12:01 am
[...] support it. Snapstream and Elgato were reported to be evaluating it. Snapstream then showed it off in their labs. All that hype and GB-PVR quietly slipped in support for it. Of course, who knows how well the [...]
April 12th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
I’m curious, can you watch live tv via BTV using the HD_PVR as the tuner? How about via BTVL?
April 16th, 2008 at 9:51 am
How many of these could I hook up to a single machine?
April 22nd, 2008 at 12:56 pm
Tony: right now, it’s not clear how many can be connected to a PC at once. –Rakesh
April 22nd, 2008 at 5:18 pm
Anyone know which A/V decoder chip is on these boxes that is feeding the Ambarella h.264 encoder. Is it a NXP or Conexant device?
April 24th, 2008 at 12:16 am
What are the minimum requirements for this device. Usually with the digital source instead of the analog source you don’t need as much firepower in the system. Can a pentium 4 2 ghz run this card or do you need a core 2 duo, also what video card do you have to have installed. I guess when the product is out and available they will have some data but do you guys have any ideas? Thanks and keep up the good work on BeyondTv……..
April 25th, 2008 at 3:02 pm
So let me make sure I understand. I can hook this to a cable\satellite box that has component and optical out and capture HDTV with snapstream.
Is this true? When can I get it?