[PLUG] WinTV-PVR-150

[Bill Ensley]

You will not be able to use the card to view your cable.

About 2 years ago, they moved to a complete digital system that the
old WinTV and Hauppage cards cannot read.

I very likely gave Free Geek that card, I have a very nice expensive 
Hauppage paperweight as well.

-Bill Ensley
www.bearprinting.com

On 5/17/2012 5:50 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> So a couple days ago I went to the Free Geek Thrift Store to get a
> sound card in the hope that it would alleviate the rumble problem I
> have with the sound chip on the Asus motherboard. They were out of
> stock of sound cards, but right next to the bin where the sound cards
> were supposed to be was a Hauppage WinTV-PVR-150 with a $5 price tag.
> It says "NTSC/NTSC/3 26552 LF, Rev F0A3."
>
> My desktop computer currently runs Lucid x86_64. All the computer ever
> does is stream internet radio and play the occasional movie. But it
> might be cool to be able to watch television on it. It is connected to
> an Asus 22" monitor at 1920 x 1080. I have Comcast cable with basic TV
> service, and an wall jack near the computer.
>
> The computer also has a messed up software RAID (mirror) where one
> drive is not running. I haven't bothered to fix it. I set up the mirror
> with mdadm when I first built the computer about four years ago just to
> figure out how to do it. I have no real need to keep the RAID.
>
> My problem is that I never acquired any clues for television. There are
> a ton of formats and many abbreviations of which I have no ken
> whatsoever.
>
> Regardless of my cluelessness, I am thinking I will wipe out Lucid, wipe
> out the RAID, and install Mythbuntu 12.04 on one of the two drives,
> leaving the other for whatever. Before installing Mythbuntu I will
> insert the Hauppage card. My plan is that Mythbuntu will say "Oh gee! A
> WinTV-PVR-150!" and proceed to set it up flawlessly.
>
> Am I dreaming? Has anyone ever used one of these cards?
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